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From: j... John Kallen
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 1990 19:22

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I read that the UN*X command for deleting files once was named 'dsw'.
The author claimed this was for "do swidanya" (sp?) == "goodbye" in 
Russian. Can anyone verify this?
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From: j...@Neon.Stanford.EDU (John Kallen)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Speaking of rm...
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.192227.7814@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 13 Sep 90 19:22:27 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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