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From: res@ihlpb.att.com (Richard Strebendt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix
Subject: Re: Norton Utilities Under UNIX 386?
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Date: 13 Jul 90 21:04:25 GMT
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In article <3642@zorba.Tynan.COM>, e89hse@rigel.efd.lth.se writes:
> In article <3580@zorba.Tynan.COM>, jtc@van-bc.UUCP (J.T. Conklin) writes:
> >In article <3566@zorba.Tynan.COM> uunet!esegue.segue.boston.ma.us!johnl (John R. Levine) writes:
> >>We are indeed porting the Norton Utilities, though reimplementing turns out
> >>to be a better word -- undeleting files under Unix is handled completely
> >>differently that it was under DOS, for example.
> >Why even try?
>  I don't think there is any general method one can use to "undelete" files in
> UNIX,

On the AT&T 3B1 under the "User Agent" this is handled quite
reasonably.  Each login has a "Wastebasket" directory in the login
directory.  When a file is "deleted" it is moved to the Wastebasket.
A cron job periodically goes around and "empties" the Wastebaskets.
Until then, a file that needs to be recovered can be moved back out of
the Wastebasket.

This could probably be done in standard UNIX by either modifying the
rm command or defining a new "delete" command that moved files and/or
directories into the $HOME/Wastebasket directory.

					Rich Strebendt
					ihlpb!res