[comp.sys.atari.st] Gulam's rm cmd

pm@cwruecmp.UUCP (Prabhaker Mateti) (08/03/87)

In article <22@piring.cwi.nl> steven@cwi.nl writes:
>
>Another problem to look out for: if you try 'rm prog.c.i' it removes
>prog.c without any complaint. This bit me in a command file, where I
>had 'rm $1.i', which I called in a sleepy moment with prog.c as
>argument...

This is really a TOS/GEMDOS 'problem.'  Gulam's rm simply calls Fdelete(fnm).
It is possible to even create a file with 'no name'; try Fcreate("..",0),
or Frename(0, oldname, "..").
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