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From: MOHRINGJ%ESVAX@dupont.COM
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Subject: Re:  Strange pmake behavior
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Date: 5 Nov 90 16:26:00 GMT
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        In Message-Id: <9011041649.AA25370@snow-white.merit-tech.com>
Mike Goss writes;
Not to worry; you can't delete a file in Unix until it's good and ready
to let you delete it.  Unlike most operating systems, Unix does not
actually have a file delete operation.  When you think you are deleting
a file, you are really only unlinking it.

        Does this mean there is a way of recovering a file you "rm" only
to find out it was a really big "OPPS!!" in doing so?

Jim Mohring
DuPont Experimental Station
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"Silence is the ONLY  acceptable substitute for Brains"