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...