Re: Creating tempfile takes too long: GNAT or Windows bug?

[Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>]

Marin David Condic wrote:
> Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org> wrote in message
> news:slrnaq8u1b.8sv.randhol+news@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no...
> 
>>Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
>>
>>>commercial software wonderful?)  I ended up creating a
>>>simple C program that periodically cleans out any of these
>>
>>Why not Ada?
>>
> 
> Probably because its quicker and easier to use OS calls with C because the
> OS is written in C. Dipping into an Ada binding to access C stuff always
> feels like an unnatural act and invariably complicates the job. Just another
> data point indicating it would be useful to have an Ada OS and that the
> argument "Well, you can always bind to blah blah blah..." is seldom
> compelling. :-)

I just have

for %%f in (%temp%\*.*) do del %%f

in my autoexec.bat.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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and I bet he was glad to get rid of it."
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