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From: todd@uhccux.UUCP (The Perplexed Wiz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A Lethal Command
Message-ID: <537@uhccux.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 02:43:20 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  1 02:43:20 1987
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In article <4040@amd.UUCP> markg@amd.UUCP (Mark Gorlinsky) writes:
>An MS-DOS system can be brought to a grinding halt with a single command:
>
>		echo >"="

Here's another interesting one.  I haven't tried it myself but have heard
a report from a "reliable source."

	cd any_subdirectory
	del ..

DO NOT TRY THIS ON YOUR HARD DISK!!!!  Try it on a "scratch" floppy.
If I recall the report correctly, the 'del ..' scrables all sorts of
things in the parent directory.  I have not tried it yet so I don't
know or understand the full effects of 'del ..'  Anyone care to
enlighten me?...todd

-- 
Todd Ogasawara, U. of Hawaii Computing Center
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