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Id: 7267
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  Thu Aug 05 16:24:14 2004 Guest - Ticket created
Subject: Support for Trashcan or Recycle Bin
Some operating systems like Mac and Windows have a trash can. Why not an option that is os-independent to use trash can when unlinking files. It could dynamically load the module appropriate to the operating system.
  Mon Oct 04 23:47:45 2004 RSOD [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
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> Some operating systems like Mac and Windows have a trash can. Why not > an option that is os-independent to use trash can when unlinking > files. It could dynamically load the module appropriate to the > operating system.
Mm, that'd be an interesting option to have. If one was unlinking files to recover disk-space, a counter-intuitive result would occur -- and Perl isn't well-known for integrating with the system's trashcan. Still, it could happen; any suggestions regarding programmatic APIs available through Perl to do this are welcome. - R.
  Mon Nov 15 14:49:54 2004 RSOD [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added 60 min
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[guest - Thu Aug 5 16:24:14 2004]: Show quoted text
> Some operating systems like Mac and Windows have a trash can. Why not > an option that is os-independent to use trash can when unlinking > files. It could dynamically load the module appropriate to the > operating system.
undelete() has been introduced in the latest version of File::Remove (currently 0.24). It is functional under Win32 and OS X, and requires additional modules from CPAN (Win32::FileOp and Mac::Glue respectively). Tests pass under OS X; Win32-specific failures will be addressed as they arise. - R.
  Mon Nov 15 14:49:55 2004 RSOD [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'resolved'