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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: V6 "dsw(1)": A Russian Contribution to UNIX
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Date: Sat, 14-Apr-84 20:31:25 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 14 20:31:25 1984
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>      Mind you that the U.S.S.R. has already made inroads into UNIX.
> Rumor has it that the defunct dsw(1) command, an interactive file remover
> now usurped by 'rm -i *', stood for

>      do sweedaneeyeh

> or, "goodbye."  DSW is also part of CB lingo.

Forgive my Russian, it's not been exercised for several years, but...

K sozhaljenju, sovsjem govno.  "dsw" stood for "delete from switches"; it
was a utility on the old PDP-11/20 UNIX.  One would set the directory offset
of the file to be deleted into the console switches and run the "dsw" program.
It would drop a core, which when run would delete that file.  Source of this
story: Dennis M. Ritchie.

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy