>>>>> "CM" == Conor MacNeill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
CM> I didn't bother to see what File.delete returns. Would that be CM> preferable? If delete can tell us that anything went wrong, we don't need to check ourselves. Yes I'd prefer it (but can't check right now whether it'd work. No Windows for me at the moment). CM> File.delete seems an unusual method to effectively return an CM> error code. If it didn't delete the thing, it should have thrown CM> an exception, IMHO. You are perfectly right. File.mkdir(s) belongs into the same category as well as File.createNewFile, renameTo, setLastModified and setReadOnly. There are lots of questionable design decissions in java.io.File. Stefan
