---- Original Message ----
From: "Chip Dorman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 3:24 PM
Subject: [HP3000-L] Purgelink And The Cheshire File

> Hi y'all,
>
> I am chasing a mystery and was looking for some suggestions
> as to where else to search.
>
> For the last three mornings I have "successfully" used
> PURGELINK to remove an opened MPE file only to have
> it mysteriously reappear the next morning.  It seems
> to be the exact same file since all characteristics are
> the same even to having the same create date.  This
> is the pattern...

Opened? Why opened? Who has it open? Open how? For reading or for writing? Why
do you want to purge a file that someone or something thinks valuable?

(But nevermind).

PURGELINK doesn't really delete the file - it just deletes it logically, to
stop anyone seeing it except the person/thing/s who has it open.
The physical delete takes place on them closing that file

I'd guess that whatever happens at the end of that session includes rewriting
it, not just closing it, so that it 'comes back'.

> Is my system really being visited by file fairies during
> the night or is there something less mystical to consider?

Can't find these creatures on the docs.... :-)

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