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Sat Sep 26 17:38:54 1981
>From ROBT@MIT-MC Sat Sep 26 16:11:07 1981
What is all this drivel about rm? If you want to remove a file,
remove it. If you don't, don't. I agree that rm is a dnagerous
operator, but so is a write from the editor, and I have never seen
an editor that could undo a write. If you want file undo primitive,
it belongs in the kernel (where it is easy to do, anyway), not at user
level. What do you people want to do on a system which is 99% full?
Deleted files can't hang around. And do I have to explicitly expunge
the 6 megabyte cores that lisp drops if you tickle it the wrong way?
Come on, if you want to ask the wizards about Unix, don't ask them
how to make it just like the operating system mother used to make;
Unix succeeds because it is NOT like the others.
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