file delete -force not deleting everything

[Mike Alexander]

--On February 10, 2007 9:48:58 PM -0500 Kevin Ballard 
<eridius at macports.org> wrote:

> file delete is a built-in Tcl command - do a `man n file` to see it.
>
> And yeah, it definitely should work.
>
> On Feb 10, 2007, at 8:33 PM, Blair Zajac wrote:
>
>> Has anybody seen anything like this before?
>>
>> Is the "file delete" an operation provided by Tcl?
>>
>> It's odd that it would go through and try to delete everything, but
>> not finish the job.
>>
>> I'm tempted to change the "file delete -force" into a system "rm -
>> fr ..." call.

"file delete -force" is broken in some versions of TCL on MacOSX.  See 
<http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/Tcl-bugs/2838168> and 
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107884>.

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Mike Alexander           mta at umich.edu
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