From: Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>
Subject: Re: Thought I'd throw this in ;-) for the sake of conversation.
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:55:43 +0200
Date: 2004-09-24T15:55:43+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u091jc.gud.ln@skymaster> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2rig76F1b49udU1@uni-berlin.de>
Nick Roberts a écrit :
>> % ls
>> foot.c foot.h foot.o toe.c toe.o
>> % rm * .o
>> rm: .o: No such file or directory
>> % ls
>> %
>
>
> And in fact, a fellow student at my university did precisely this. I had
> the unfortunate task of telling her that all her coursework for the last
> two weeks was gone. Luckily she got it back (from systems daily backup),
> but lost a day's work all the same.
>
> And people still ask me, in querulous tones, why I hate Unix so much.
>
Talking about good ol' times... VMS...
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-24 1:12 Thought I'd throw this in ;-) for the sake of conversation stephane richard
2004-09-24 9:56 ` Björn Persson
2004-09-24 11:54 ` Nick Roberts
2004-09-24 13:35 ` Chris Humphries
2004-09-24 19:52 ` Nick Roberts
2004-09-27 13:25 ` Chris Humphries
2004-09-25 5:26 ` Wes Groleau
2004-09-24 13:55 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen [this message]
2004-09-24 17:36 ` Benjamin Ketcham
2004-09-24 20:17 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-09-25 0:35 ` Brian May
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