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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
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Subject: Re: Think Pascal help needed
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Date: 28 Feb 90 04:17:48 GMT
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In article <5678.25ea6806@uhvax1.uh.edu> englfz@uhvax1.uh.edu writes:
>I'm using Think Pascal and need to create and delete temporary files
>within the program.  Creating the files is no problem, bu I don't know how 
>to tell Pascal to tell th Mac to trash the files I no longer need.

	If you use standard Pascal calls to create anonymous files,
those files will be deleted when the program terminates. If you're going
to use the Mac file system calls, you'll need to keep a list of the files
that you've created, and delete them as the last action in your program.

R.



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