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From: iyengar@russ.cis.upenn.edu (Anand Iyengar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Next Bugs
Message-ID: <14697@netnews.upenn.edu>
Date: 24 Sep 89 19:36:31 GMT
References: <2420@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> <6247@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: iyengar@russ.cis.upenn.edu.UUCP (Anand Iyengar)
Organization: The Lab Rats
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In article <6247@pt.cs.cmu.edu> avie@wb1.cs.cmu.edu (Avadis Tevanian) writes:
>In article <2420@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> jst@cca.ucsf.edu.UUCP (Joe Stong) writes:
># bring it up in interactive mode.  Pretty frightening, -i is INITIALIZE,
># and not interactive.
>Correct, disk -i is initialize.  I don't know why its frightening.
	Because it's inconsistant with things like rm and mv, which flag -i as
interactive.  The inconsistancy alone is no big deal, but since people are
probably going to type it erroneously, it should be something more reversible. 

							Anand.  
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