[luau] MSWindows

burnst001 at hawaii.rr.com burnst001 at hawaii.rr.com
Fri Aug 2 13:07:01 PDT 2002


>Couldn't a graphical method of executing 'rm -rf' also allow accidental
>deletion?  

You could certainly design a GUI so that it was just as easy (a bad design),
and people seem capable of out-idioting any idiot-proof measure. But let's face
it, accidentally typing rm -rf /lib/* and hitting enter (when what was intended
may have been something like rm -rf /lib/*.xxx) is a *lot* easier than openning
a window on /lib, selecting every item in the directory, dragging them all to
the trash, and then emptying the trash, all by accident.



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