26 Nov
2004
26 Nov
'04
10:53 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 07:28:28PM +0000, Bob Franklin wrote:
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
[In a way, I think it has got worse with recent developments - there are now such an enormous number of warnings for executing anything that people just tend to pick 'yes', 'yes', 'ok', 'righto', 'I understand' because otherwise nothing happens.]
This is exactly the reason that I think aliasing 'rm' to 'rm -i' is such a pointless exercise, in no time at all hitting 'y' is automatic and the warning gives you no protection at all against deleting files by mistake.
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Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)
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