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- From: rhialto@mbfys.kun.nl (Olaf Seibert)
- Subject: Re: Problem with softlinks
- Message-ID: <CKyD0K.4Ky@sci.kun.nl>
- Keywords: Makelink, softlink, delete
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- Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- References: <1994Feb8.165613.16041@uts.uni-c.dk>
- Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 10:26:43 GMT
- Lines: 18
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- In <1994Feb8.165613.16041@uts.uni-c.dk> thomas@mat.dth.dk (Thomas Sepstrup Nielsen) writes:
- >The REAL PROBLEM is that I cannot delete the soft-link again. I have
- >tried just about everything (I think :).
-
- As far as I've tried, you can't usually delete a softlink if it
- does not point to something else (that you must be able to delete).
- This seems to be because the Delete command locks the link to see if
- it exists and is deletable. But of course it will lock the object
- pointed to instead (if that exists).
-
- The solution: use a program that bypasses all checks and just calls
- the DOS function DeleteFile() (or whatever it was called). That works
- just fine.
-
- -Olaf.
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