I definitely agree! But this is just a utility which only selects out these specific temporary files to delete them so there shouldn't be any problems. I always understood LONGNAMES ON to be a once only thing, but for some reason, that doesn't seem to be the case. I can only assume that when you do a uv upgrade it must reset the LONGNAMES to the default OFF. :<
-Dianne


Anthony Youngman wrote:

If you're just doing this to clean out temporary files, then okay. BUT
...

As I understood it, "LONGNAMES ON" is a "once only" operation. So the
problem should go away of its own accord over time (and yes, it's a
bummer that the default is OFF - can't somebody at IBM "fix" it? I can't
see any maintenance implications of a change!)

Secondly, we regularly share a dictionary among multiple files. Changing
the default to delete discrepant DICTs by default would be disastrous!
But this brings up *another* bug/feature in DELETE.FILE. If you tell it
not to delete a discrepant dictionary, the DELETE.FILE fails :-( The PI
version assumed - sensibly - that (a) your discrepant dictionary
belonged to another file, and (b) you wanted the DELETE.FILE to complete
successfully. So, having prompted you once, it had no qualms about
prompting again and saying "the DATA or DICT delete failed, do you still
want to delete the VOC entry". 99 times in 100 the answer was "Y"es. So
UV forces me to type in a long command, instead of just prompting me for
a Y/N :-(

Cheers,
Wol





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