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Par2: Deleting a file using Windows API
1999-06-19 -- Richard Brown
 
Robert Cayouette and myself, Richard Brown want to give something back
to the Clarion community for all the help we have received.  We needed a 
way to delete a text file and used this WIN API.
 
R.E.B.
 
 
!after global include
!*********************************
 include('winequ.clw')
 
!global data
!*********************************
GLO:FileName        Cstring(256)
 
!global map
!*********************************
 OMIT('***',_WIDTH32_)
Module('win16.lib')
 DeleteFileA(*LPCSTR),BOOL,PASCAL,RAW
END
    ***
 COMPILE('***',_WIDTH32_)
Module('win32.lib')
 DeleteFileA(*LPCSTR),BOOL,PASCAL,RAW
END
    ***
 

!somewhere in the program to delete a file
!******************************************
!delete the entire `data.ini` file
GLO:FileName='.\csidata\data.ini'
X# = DeleteFileA(GLO:FileName)



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