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Diskoptimizers

    11-Jun-90 23:13:05
Sb: #108332-Diskoptimizers
Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
To: Khalid Aldoseri 75166,2531
Khalid (and John), It's got to SetFunction'ed to RENAME else saving the header block pointer would be of very little use. The next write to the drive could easily make that pointer invalid. By renaming the file into the trashcan directory, it's uniform with the WorkBench method, and the file wouldn't really be deleted until you emptied the trash. Ah…but isn't that a problem then??? Would not 'Empty Trash' also attempt to go thru the DeleteFile() function? And wouldn't that attempt to simply rename it to itself? The answer would be yes, so you'd also have to have your function check for the current location of the file, and if already in the trashcan…really get rid of it. Don