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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DeleteFile() problem
Message-ID: <24471@sun.uucp>
Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 20:56:30 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 29 20:56:30 1987
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In article <02JRH437@TAMVENUS> JRH4373@TAMVENUS.BITNET writes:
				^-How do you remember a user-id like this?
>                        ... I am experiencing a bit of difficulty with the
>AmigaD*S function DeleteFile()...
>       ...  I am getting an object in use error when trying to delete any
>directory after having deleted all files in that directory...
>      ...the del command will not delete it either although I can cd to it.

I suspect you have a LOCK associated with this directory lying around
somewhere. Make sure you UnLock() any directory (or Close()) before
trying to delete it, since AmigaDOS checks the list of Locks off a 
file to determine if it is in use. If you have freed all you locks then
check to see if some other process has it locked. For instance when you 
CD to a directory, the CLI gets a Lock on it, thus it is undeletable until
you CD out of it.

--Chuck McManis
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