Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!wjh12!genrad!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!sri-unix!gwyn@BRL-VLD.ARPA From: gwyn@BRL-VLD.ARPA Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: ...be glad your version doesn't do this. Message-ID: <936@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Sat, 16-Jun-84 21:57:31 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.936 Posted: Sat Jun 16 21:57:31 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 20-Jun-84 00:38:50 EDT Lines: 11 From: Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)The dialogue about "rm *" that you cited was in fact used as an example of problems with naive interfaces of this type. The discussion in the original CACM article was reasonable. Quoting such a thing out of context is not, since it gives the impression that the article's authors were pretty stupid. P.S. I am posting this rather than mailing to the author since the MIT mailer appears to be totally brain-damaged; at least, I can't find a reasonable return Internet address in his message.