Question
is there a way to delete a text file via Delphi 5 so that the file could not be recovered in the Windows recycle bin???Answer
The function DeleteFile deletes a file without first making a "backup" in Windows' recycle bin. That file can not be recovered from the recycle bin, because it never was in there :)
Note that this holds true for all types of files, not only for text files.
Source code example:
DeleteFile('c:\test\testfile.txt');