On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 07:29, dave mallery wrote: > hi list! > > there's a saying that all people are in two groups: > > those who have done an rm -R * in root > and those who have not done it yet. > > last evening, i joined the former group after six years of linux and a > lifetime of computing. > > one learns vast humility in milliseconds. no matter how fast you hit a > control/c, almost everything is gone... there are no programs left to > run! > > unbelieveably, i did this rm -R as i was cleaning up after a new system > backup. i had been using mondo, but the mindi portion of it had stopped > working a few weeks ago and was still dead. (in testing, these things > seem to clean up after a few weeks of upgrades) > I haven't managed to do it in Debian yet ( 3 weeks old ) or Mandrake the year before.
But back in the days of good ol' Wonders98 and 98se I used to do the same deliberately and of necessity as in format c: every several months. Many years ago I did manage to get this award on a DEC RSTS/E system with PIP *,BAK/DE (the DE switch meaning delete) which returned the error message 'NO SUCH FILE BAK' or something like that. D'oh. Luckily the sysop had done a full tape backup the evening before. Phew! Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
