From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,24a59fbc07128ff8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-08 21:07:58 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!unlnews.unl.edu!newsfeed.ksu.edu!nntp.ksu.edu!news.okstate.edu!dvdeug From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: rename missing in Text_IO Date: 8 May 2001 23:51:05 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State University Message-ID: <9da0p9$7hu2@news.cis.okstate.edu> References: <9cvdav$8q61@news.cis.okstate.edu> Reply-To: dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org NNTP-Posting-Host: x8b4e555d.dhcp.okstate.edu User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.0 (Linux) Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:7350 Date: 2001-05-08T23:51:05+00:00 List-Id: On Tue, 08 May 2001 22:03:54 GMT, Charles Hixson 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 >> 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. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg