Kill() files in Win95/98 without sending to Recycle Bin?

[Wayne Diamond]

Im using Kill() to delete files - i DONT want the Recycle Bin involved at all (I thought you needed to use APIs to send files to the Recycle Bin anyway?)
but under Win95/98, all files that I Kill() are being sent to the Recycle Bin!
does anyone have a workaround?


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[Patrice Terrier]

Use the DeleteFile API

BOOL DeleteFile(
LPCTSTR lpFileName // file name
);
Parameters
lpFileName
[in] Pointer to a null-terminated string that specifies the file to be deleted.
Windows NT/2000: In the ANSI version of this function, the name is limited to MAX_PATH characters. To extend this limit to nearly 32,000 wide characters, call the Unicode version of the function and prepend "\\?\" to the path. For more information, see File Name Conventions.

Windows 95/98: This string must not exceed MAX_PATH characters.

Return Values
If the function succeeds, the return value is nonzero.

If the function fails, the return value is zero. To get extended error information, call GetLastError.



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Patrice Terrier
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[Wayne Diamond]

Patrice, many thanks!
I wrongly assumed that Kill() was an indirect way of using the DeleteFile API call, obviously not ...? I'm confused why Kill() sends to the Recycle Bin in 95/98 and not NT/2K though, but DeleteFile has solved my problem, so thanks again :-)


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[Tom Hanlin]

If, by "Kill()", you mean the PowerBASIC statement "KILL"-- and you find that it's causing files to go to the Recycle Bin-- the cause is likely to be that you've installed a system utility, such as Norton Protected Recycle Bin, and told it to "recycle" files that would normally just be deleted.

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Tom Hanlin
PowerBASIC Staff