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From: doelz@urz.unibas.ch (Reinhard Doelz)
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Subject: RE: Accidently rm files
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Date: 9 Apr 90 07:47:00 GMT
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How to avoid removal of files ? 
You could use an alias for rm which does an ln to a dumpster as the 
workspace supposedly does so. All these methods are critical if your 
disk is close to 100% full. Therefore, we use to run a crontab which does 
'empty trash' by purpose once in a while. 

- Reinhard