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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
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Subject: Re: Request for human interface design anecdotes
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Date: Thu, 5-Nov-87 20:04:59 EST
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An old version of emacs we used to use created backup files tagged with
".BAK".   One day I quickly typed "rm *.BAK", or so I thought.  To
my horror, I looked at the command line and saw, "% rm *>BAK".  The
greater-than is a capital period, and I depressed the shift key just
a fraction of a second early.  The system was industriously deleting all
my files and piping the (empty) listing to a new file called BAK.