VDQ : Delete a whole file from within AbiWord?

         I have the distinct impression that my questions (which, as
I've said before, I ask as the doubtless inadequate but only Ersatz
for IT support, on behalf of an active user of AbiWord), and
especially my gentle attempts at garden-variety Internet levity, are
uncommonly ill-instructed compared to the general level of this
list.

         So this time I'll ask a Very Dumb Question, and label it as
such, with others (no doubt) to follow in time. (If I had another
source of help, I'd go there.)

         Like many another good writer (something I do have
professional competence in judging, believe it or not), my user had
written two or three alternate drafts of Chapter Ten, and let them
all age.

         Having mined the least of them for what good was in it, she
wanted to delete the worthless husk.

         There must be a way to do that from within AbiWord; but
neither she who is used to it, nor I who know a little bit about
linux, could spot it. (We tried several, and none worked.)

         Fwiw, what I did was leave Abiword, go to her home directory
and then into a subdirectory I knew of, called chapters, and simply
do "rm chapter_ten".

         I suppose I could have done a search, or a ls | grep
command, on *.abw and found it that way. Anyway, the file (chapter)
is gone -- but not in a way she'll be able to do next time without
help. And there may -- no, will -- be many next times. This is a
careful writer.

         Jumping out to the shell is not my idea of user-friendly
anything, nor iiuc that of Abiword's developers -- and I emphasize
that I wish AbiWord only the best, with all my heart. Perhaps my
Notloesung seems amazingly clueless to the better-instructed. I
can't believe there isn't a better way.

         What would some scholar working alone -- by puTTy to a
campus machine from home, say, knowing nothing of *ix shells -- have
done? It has to be obvious -- but there's a classic anecdote about
that ....

         Let me close by repeating, with emphasis, that the question
is how to delete one whole .abw file, one of several, from its
directory (under Fedora Core 4 on an old 1998 pentium2 in this
instance, if that matters) *without* leaving AbiWord. The way I did
it got the job done, easily -- for me -- but not for my user.

-- 
Beartooth Implacable, Neo-Redneck, Linux Evangelist
On the Internet, you can never tell who is a dog -- 
supposing you care -- but you can tell who has a mind.
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