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From: andytoy@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Andy Toy, Applications Support Group)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PC-DOS 4.00 text of announcement
Message-ID: <4926@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Date: 26 Jul 88 15:13:52 GMT
References: <2498@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <4330098@hpindda.HP.COM>
Reply-To: andytoy@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Andy Toy, Applications Support Group)
Organization: Dept of Computing Services, U of Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
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In article <4330098@hpindda.HP.COM> mintz@hpindda.HP.COM (Ken Mintz) writes:
<> > ERASE or DEL has a new /p parameter that displays each
<>                          ^^
<> > filename and a message to verify that the file is to be deleted.
<>
<> Anyone giving out prizes for intuitive user interfaces?  Thanks a lot for
<> not using something silly like /q or /i.
<
<  You don't suppose "/p" could stand for "prompt"?  Of course, "/q" would have
<  just OPPOSITE mnemonic interpretation ("quiet"?).

Probably it is to be consistent with the /P switches in REPLACE and XCOPY.
That kind of makes the /P switch in DIR out of place.
-- 
Andy Toy, Applications Support Group, Department of Computing Services (DCS),
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA N2L 3G1, 519/885-1211 x3417
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