usenet@usceast.UUCP (Network admin alias) (06/16/84)
<bailing out near line 1> Often (well sometimes), I will have a big file in a tight filesystem that I want to transform in some way ( say a tar file I want to extract or a batched news file I want to unbatch) , and have the results go in the same filesystem. When space is really tight I find myself having to go through all sorts of contortions to do this, even though the results would easily fit , IF the original file weren't still there. I wonder if any of y'all out there have a way of making a file erase itself as it is read. Speed or efficiency isn't too important. I can always nohup it and go home. Thanks Ted Nolan ...usceast!ted -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ted Nolan ...decvac!mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!usceast!ted 6536 Brookside Circle Columbia, SC 29206 ("Sixty-sixty?" he suggested) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------