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From: reese@eeg.UUCP (Reese E. Faucette)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Request for human interface design anecdotes
Message-ID: <343@eeg.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 20:23:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: eeg.343
Posted: Wed Oct 21 20:23:33 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Oct-87 00:49:47 EDT
References: <301@mv03.ecf.toronto.edu> <125@nusdhub.UUCP> <447@gtx.com>
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Organization: EEG Systems Laboratory, San Francisco
Lines: 14
Keywords: human factors, interfaces
Summary: a protection

In article <447@gtx.com>, al@gtx.com (0732) writes:
> How about the person who types
>      rm * .o

just create a file called "-i" in your directory that you want protected!
then "rm *" expands to "rm -i file1 file2 file3 ..."
(unless you have other files beginning with weird characters)
-r


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Reese E. Faucette, EEG Systems Laboratory
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