From: utzoo!decvax!cca!Dan@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: Soft Remove (Leave my free list alone!) Article-I.D.: sri-unix.1815 Posted: Sun Jun 20 12:32:35 1982 Received: Mon Jul 12 11:43:32 1982 Date: 8 Jun 1982 11:11:25 EDT (Tuesday) The C shell solves this problem, as it does so many others; the "set noclobber" option will save you. The second example: cat fourteen_character_filename > fourteen_character_filename.f seems to indicate that the developers of UNIX ignored Brian Kernighan's dictum that "the system should not force you to count characters". If UNIX rejected long filenames entirely, I would never have to count to fourteen--at worst I would get an error message, instead of a disaster. One of those many little things...