Thanks Again Lex, I will try.

Regards!.

gsa.

"Lex Spoon" <lex at cc.gatech.edu> escribió en el mensaje
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> "Germán S. Arduino" <gsa at softhome.net> wrote:
> > Are only .desktop files (of Gnome desktop configuration), aren't bigs,
and
> > I would haven't problems in create a new ones and delete  or  (better)
> > rename
> > the original files, but searching in FileStream, StandarFileStream
> > and CrLfFileStream I can't find the right methods to make that.
> >
>
> Well, you could write to .desktop.tmp or .desktop.new.  To do the
> renaming, rename:toBe: will probably work:
>
> FileDirectory default rename: (oldname) toBe: (new name)
>
> I am guessing that in the Unix VM this will happily overwrite the
> existing file.  If that doesn't work, you can always delete the file
> first using deleteFileNamed:, and then do a rename.
>
>
>
> > > Besides, if you really want efficiency, you wouldn't
> > > be using a text file at all, but would be using a database.  :)
> >
> > Why use databases having real object technology as Smalltalk! :)
>
> Indeed.  We'd probably all love to do things like:
>
> Files at: '.desktop' put: (myDesktopLayoutObject)
>
> :)
>
>
> Lex
>
>