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From: gauss@homxc.ATT.COM (E.GAUSS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: An MS-DOS Fright
Message-ID: <5826@homxc.ATT.COM>
Date: 5 Mar 89 08:08:48 GMT
Organization: AT&T BL Holmdel NJ USA
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While this may be documented somewhere, I have not seen it.  If your
finger strays to the next key and you type

               del  */wrk

instead of

               del  *.wrk

MS-DOS apparently deletes all files except those with an extension of .wrk!
It happened to me when I was doing housecleaning on my hard disk.  I am rather
glad I am so paranoid about backup.

Ed Gauss