Is there a C runtime file delete function?

[Angus Comber]

I have been looking at the fopen etc but cannot seem to find a way to delete
a file using C runtime functions.

Angus Comber
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[Christopher Benson-Manica]

Angus Comber <an***@iteloffice.com.pleasenospam> spoke thus:

I have been looking at the fopen etc but cannot seem to find a way to delete
a file using C runtime functions.

(That's because you can't, with standard C.)

http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/dj3...lc-welcome.txt
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html
http://benpfaff.org/writings/clc/off-topic.html

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[Richard Heathfield]

Christopher Benson-Manica wrote:

Angus Comber <an***@iteloffice.com.pleasenospam> spoke thus:

I have been looking at the fopen etc but cannot seem to find a way to
delete a file using C runtime functions.

(That's because you can't, with standard C.)

Wrong.

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[Richard Heathfield]

Angus Comber wrote:

I have been looking at the fopen etc but cannot seem to find a way to
delete a file using C runtime functions.

Yes. It's called remove(), and it is declared in <stdio.h>

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[Alan Balmer]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 22:33:07 +0000 (UTC), Christopher Benson-Manica
<at***@nospam.cyberspace.org> wrote:

Angus Comber <an***@iteloffice.com.pleasenospam> spoke thus:

I have been looking at the fopen etc but cannot seem to find a way to delete
a file using C runtime functions.

(That's because you can't, with standard C.)

http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/dj3...lc-welcome.txt
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html
http://benpfaff.org/writings/clc/off-topic.html

http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/q19.16.html

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[Thomas Stegen]

Christopher Benson-Manica wrote:

Angus Comber <an***@iteloffice.com.pleasenospam> spoke thus:

I have been looking at the fopen etc but cannot seem to find a way to delete
a file using C runtime functions.

(That's because you can't, with standard C.)

Then what does remove do?

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Thomas.

[Christopher Benson-Manica]

Thomas Stegen <ts*****@cis.strath.ac.uk> spoke thus:

Then what does remove do?

Remove my sense of shame? *sigh*

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