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From: eal@tut.fi (Lehtim{ki Erkki)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,rec.humor.d,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Keywords: Delete, *.*;*
Message-ID: <1036@tutor.tut.fi>
Date: 6 Feb 89 19:31:48 GMT
References: <7143@pyr.gatech.EDU> <4744@sfsup.UUCP> <2887@sybase.sybase.com> <1912I78BC@CUNYVM>
Reply-To: eal@tutor.UUCP (Lehtim{ki Erkki)
Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Finland
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Our company bought a text processing package and a salesman came to us to
install it. He had some difficulties in first time to install it, so he
decided to delete all his files and start over. But alas, instead of
typing DELETE [...]*.*.* (Yes, it's in VAX/VBMS), he typed

DELETE/NOLOG [*...]*.*.*

Few moments later i noticed that i had much more disk quota left than i
should have and noticed that all my files with DELETE privilege for same
user group had gone. And for everybody else too. 

It was lucky that the salesman was not using system account.




-- 
Erkki A. Lehtim{ki        eal@tut.uucp   "I don't eat nutrasweet"