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Re: deleting files

From "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: deleting files
Date 2011-01-28 20:20 -0800
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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"Dagon" <dagon@dagon.net> wrote in message news:hsrb18-v04.ln1@dagon.net...
>
> My WAG is that the utility is using OS-specific calls and knowledge that 
> are
> faster than the more general abstractions in the JDK.

Mine too.  (And given how long it takes to delete a big directory tree in 
the Explorer, I'd guess that the utility is faster than that too.)
 

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Re: deleting files dagon@dagon.net (Dagon) - 2011-01-28 14:17 -0800
  Re: deleting files "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com> - 2011-01-28 20:20 -0800
  Re: deleting files Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-01-29 14:02 -0800
  Re: deleting files Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-01-29 13:58 -0800

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