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From: barnett@steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G Barnett)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng,comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Request for human interface design anecdotes (and a cure?)
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Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 06:47:31 EST
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In article <2205@killer.UUCP> jfh@killer.UUCP (The Beach Bum) writes:

[ rm could ask for comfirmation if more than 15 files were to be deleted]

| Having the first few lines in main() be something like,
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|	fflg = (argc > 15) || fflg;
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|might be nice, or having a prompt, ala' MessyDos (yick) might be nice.
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|Thoughts?

Don't change rm when you could have a shell script do the same thing!

Sheesh!