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From: cmcmanis@stpeter.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Lattice question: is there a "link"
Keywords: lattice, link, rename.
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Date: 31 May 90 20:00:32 GMT
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In article <2474@awdprime.UUCP> robin@sabre.austin.ibm.com (Robin D. Wilson/1000000) writes:
>According to the lattice manual, the rename(old,new) call will rename old
>to new.  Unfortunately, it will not remove new, if it exists, and it will 
>not allow you to specify a path to "new".  

You are doing the rename on the same Volume yes? If you rename from 
Foo:A to Foo:B then A should be removed. If you rename from Foo:A to
Bar:B then what you get is a copy of A to B, and A is not deleted.

You could try Execute("rename A as B", 0, 0); paying attention to the
problems that Execute entails when you are not running from a CLI
and need to know the result of the operation.


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