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Article #4465Re: dsw
From: da... Dave Butterfield
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 1990 22:46
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 1990 22:46
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In article <1990Sep13....@Neon.Stanford.EDU> j...@Neon.Stanford.EDU (John Kallen) writes: >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 It stands for "delete switches", a reference to how you specified which file you wanted to go away.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!turnkey!orchard.la.locus.com!prodnet.la.locus.com!dave From: da...@locus.com (Dave Butterfield) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: dsw Message-ID: <17287@oolong.la.locus.com> Date: 13 Sep 90 22:46:26 GMT References: <1990Sep13.192227.7814@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Organization: Locus Computing Corp, Los Angeles Lines: 6 Posted: Thu Sep 13 23:46:26 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit