Re: lynx-dev Re: your mail

[Mike Castle]

Amazingly enough T.E.Dickey said:
> rename (always/only) works on the same file-system - on either VMS or Unix.

*grump*

Tell this to MicroSoft.  Apparently the rename() that comes with VC 5.0
will work across file-systems (much to my annoyance as a co-worker has
started using that incessantly... grrrr).

But anyway, could use rename() on Win32 system.  Heh.

Btw, I do believe the original article mentioned doing a delete after a
successful copy... so, consider what modern "mv" does in the unix world.... 
if rename errors due to not being the same file system (whatever the 
appropriate error condition is), then fall back to copy/delete.  

LYrename()/LYmove() anyone?  *grin*

mrc [pondering going back to unpacking]
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