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From: mpl@hlwpg.UUCP (Michael)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: origins of dsw
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Date: Tue, 1-May-84 14:31:55 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  1 14:31:55 1984
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The way I heard it, "dsw" stood for "delete with switch", which is an old DEC
utility to delete files before logging off (so I've heard).
The program would display each file, after which the user would hit a carriage
return after setting a switch (on the console, of course) either up or down
(to save or delete files by default).
This allowed the user to clean up his directory in a (reasonably) friendly (?)
manner.

					Mike Lindner
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