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From: ben@HPCVXBEN.CV.HP.COM (Benjamin Ellsworth)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: R4 Athena Widget question.
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Date: 2 Mar 90 01:33:18 GMT
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[This is getting ridiculous...]

> 
>     Every UN*X system that I've used allows the programmer to create a
>     file, and then unlink it from the file system.
> 
> This doesn't help for files that you *want* to stay around in the
> event of a crash.

Very good Bob, but according to my source, Mr. Blow *wanted* a TEMP 
file.  It was the fact that an *unwanted* file was left after a crash
that started this whole thing.  Had Mr. Blow been finding his widget to
be leaving behind mega-bytes of useful data I'm sure that he would have
never complained about file space consumption.  Your comment seems a 
bit out of context.

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Ben