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From: TENAGLIA@mis.mcw.edu (Chris Tenaglia - 257-8765)
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Subject: A more useful concept
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Date: 1 Dec 90 13:48:00 GMT
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In the past icon has been getting better and better. For example there's
now a remove(filespec) procedure to delete files which is better than
                            system("rm "||filespec)

and I think there's also a rename(ofile,nfile) instead of
                       system("mv "||ofile||" "||nfile)

I think it would be nice to have a few more file management primitives. Oh oh,
maybe they already exist, and I should just read the manual?

cpfile(oldfile,newfile)         # copy files
appfile(oldfile,existingfile)   # append files together
listvar := dir(path)            # generate a list of file names (directory)
freedisk:= df(dspec)            # returns number of blocks of free disk
                                  like unix df or vms show dev/mount

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Also there are the environmental variables that are accessible with
getenv(), and known as logicals to VMS people.

Is it possible to capture aliases (symbols to vms people)? Or doesn't that
sound like a useful enough feature?


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