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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng,comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Request for human interface design anecdotes
Message-ID: <610@omen.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Oct-87 01:59:21 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 27 01:59:21 1987
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Reply-To: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Organization: Omen Technology Inc, Portland Oregon
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Keywords: human factors, interfaces
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In article <1325@desint.UUCP> geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) writes:
:> 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)
:
:What a typically Unix solution.  Even to the flaws:  you have to put up
:with an ugly file in your directory, and it doesn't work if you
:type "rm test *".

One other flaw that can be circumvented: it takes up an inode.
So, my "-i" has many links to it, it only takes up a directory slot
plus one inode total.