Re: Delete All Your Files

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From: ne... news
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 1990 08:42

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In article <DAVEG.90S...@near.cs.caltech.edu>, da...@near.cs.caltech.edu
(Dave Gillespie) writes:
|> Okay, folks:  Have you ever had a bug in an innocent little program
|> that really did delete all your files?
Well, we did have a new professor copy a Convex C1 executable to a Sun 3
and run it... it didn't DELETE any files, though. Quite the contrary.
It created several hundred files all with long names consisting of nothing
but random control characters interspersed with occasional gibberish.

\    /\    /\    /\/\/\/\/\/\/\.-.-.-.-.......___________
 \  /  \  /  \  /Dept of Geophysics, Stanford University \/\/\.-.-....___
  \/    \/    \/Joe Dellinger j...@hanauma.stanford.edu  apple!hanauma!joe\/\.-._
************** Reading News again, when I should be writing my thesis... *******

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Subject: Re: Delete All Your Files
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Date: 3 Sep 90 08:42:17 GMT
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