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From: bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: looking for the trashcan
Keywords: trash trashcan
Message-ID: <8568@fy.sei.cmu.edu>
Date: 13 Sep 90 17:47:09 GMT
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In article <1990Sep13.155439.2218@portia.Stanford.EDU> aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace) writes:

>Actually, it woudn't be *that* hard to create such a directory on a hard drive,
>then have a program that watches for the system shutdown message 
>(like WM_QUERYENDSESSION), asks if you want to chuck the trash or not, and
>if so deletes everything in it.  The Trash Manager would have to be in the
>load= or run= line.   Now, to make it even neater, if it could track the
>pseudo-undocumented File Manager messages so you can drag onto the Trash
>Manager icon...  Just a thought...

Simpler, on boot-up I automatically erase everything in \tmp (ala Unix). So
create \Trash and have an autoexec.bat routine to list and request
erasing \Trash on startup.

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