Re: [MacPerl] deleting the desktop database?

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

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At 3:11 PM +0200 6/12/98, Laurent Bardi wrote:

} Hi, me again
}
} for a script that is in shutdown folder, i want to destroy the
} desktop-database (the 2 files "Desktop DB" and "Desktop DF" )
} in order to reconstruct them at every boot.
}
} Is there a way to do that (FspDelete doesn t work and a call to AS to
} move those 2 files in the trash doesn t work anymore...)

To remove a file in Perl, use unlink().  But there's a chance this may fail
if the file is open by something else (a real possibility with the Desktop
files).  I've never experimented to find out whether you can unlink() an
open file in MacOS.

You can move them to the Trash in Perl with rename().  The Trash is an
invisible folder in the top level of whatever drive the file is on.

}
} Many thanks in advance
}
}
} --
}
} Laurent BARDI: Ingenieur Systemes & Reseaux
} Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
} INSTITUT  de PHARMACOLOGIE et de BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE
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schinder@pobox.com

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