Re: rename missing in Text_IO

[dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner)]

On Tue, 08 May 2001 22:03:54 GMT, Charles Hixson <charleshixson@earthling.net> wrote:
> dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) wrote in
><9cvdav$8q61@news.cis.okstate.edu>: 
> 
>>On 4 May 2001 18:38:04 -0500, Larry Kilgallen
>><Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam> wrote: 
>>> Unlike Delete, the legality of Rename is going to vary from
>>> operating system to operating system.  If you rename into a
>>> different directory on VMS, that directory must be on the
>>> same physical disk.  With rooted directories, begin on the
>>> same disk is not obvious by comparing the old and new
>>> filespecs. 
>>
>>This is true on Unix too. 
> 
> I thought that the *nix rename command was mv ... 
[...]
> Of course, that's at the 
> command level.  I suppose that there are system calls 
> implemented at a lower level, 

I understood him to be talking about system calls, and the unix
system call 'rename' works the same way he was describing VMS
Rename to work.

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