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From: tom@iconsys.UUCP (Tom Kimpton)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,rec.humor.d,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Message-ID: <336@iconsys.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 89 18:40:31 GMT
References: <7143@pyr.gatech.EDU> <532@geovision.UUCP> <768@ur-cc.UUCP> <1012@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM> <380@frksyv.UUCP> <7754@netnews.upenn.edu> <82736@felix.UUCP>
Reply-To: tom@iconsys.UUCP (Tom Kimpton)
Organization: ICON International, Inc., Orem, UT
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When we were first porting UN*X to our hardware we often had
crashes that would leave the file system in a state of disarry.
Going through the fsck routine of being asked if we wanted to
clear the file, etc got to be a hassle.  So one of the programmers
added a "-y" option to fsck that would print out yes to the
question (so you could see what was going on), automatically
clear the file in question and continue.  It was very handy.  It
cut reboot times down dramatically.  Until the first time "/"
was corrupted:
	Directory "/" corrupted, do you wish to remove? YES
	Directory "/" removed.
"-y" was removed forthwith.
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Tom Kimpton                    UUCP: {uunet,caeco,nrc-ut}!iconsys!tom
Software Development Engineer  ARPANET: icon%byuadam.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Icon International, Inc.       BITNET: icon%byuadam.bitnet (multi-user acct)
Orem, Utah 84058               PHONE: (801) 225-6888