Hey WAYNE!

Sep 14 16:41 04, WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to MAURICE KINAL:

 WC>  You mean like rm -r / 

For sure except that will fail as soon as it deletes rm ... won't it? 
Never tried it and I really don't want to but I suspect it will not end up
deleting the entire partition and other mounted drive(s)/partition(s).  Too
dangerous.

 WC>  Never done it.
 WC>  Always got what I intended, path, path, path.

Right.

 WC>  Only the one stupid cp filename.txt /dev/hda1 instead of cp 
 WC> filename.txt
 WC>  /mnt/directoryname after mount dev//hda1 /mnt

Understood except /dev/hda1 which I already know you meant to type.

 WC>  Took about three and a half - four hours to get back most everything 
 WC>  but of course had a LOT of addons and updates to add to Win 98
 WC>  which took MUCH longer :-(

Yeah.  Windows sucks for sure, especially installation.  Deleting it might
be fun except that it never gets installed on any machine here so I am only
speculating on that.  I have installed it for other people but that was
many years ago and only women I liked at the time.  Otherwise I don't get
near it.  However it proved  never to be worth it, looking back.

 MK>> Exactly.  "rm -r" is totally dangerous as root but
also as a user
 MK>> in their home directory.  Handle with care.

 WC> That one I've used repeatedly to cleanup after reorganizing 
 WC> as I got a better idea of what I wanted.

Yep.  Works great but can be deadly.

Life is good,
Maurice

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