filelist - This is a list of filenames, one name per line.

Before deleting files, a popup box promots the user with the names of the selected files, asking to verify that the files should be deleted. If the user clicks on Yes, each file named in filelist is deleted from the current working directory.

Exceptions:

1. For use with BioLegato it is important to know that the  BioLegato Table canvas selects all files if none are selected, meaning that ALL files in the current directory will be written to filelist. This is a feature. We can circumvent that by checking for a pseudo-comment beginning '#' on the first line.  If found, a popup box informs the user that no files were selected, and the deletion is cancelled.

2. We want to avoid deleting NFS file handles. Any file whose name begins with .nfs will be skipped, and a message is printed to the standard output.

Dr. Brian Fristensky
Department of Plant Science
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB  Canada R3T 2N2
frist@cc.umanitoba.ca
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~frist