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Re: Open Letter to an MS-DOS User

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From: Alan Barclay
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1991 14:55
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In article <1991Mar27.215516.20770@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle) writes:
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>of the main directory on a DOS machine. Wanting to rid the drive of these now
>unnecessary files with as little trouble as possible, I quickly typed cd JUNK
>from the main directory and del *.*. The problem was, I am normally a decent
>touch typist, so I was not watching the screen when I made the typo in the cd
>command. Next thing I knew I had removed all the files off the main directory
>of a 70Mb Hard Drive. The point being that on the Mac, I would have simply
>dragged Junk (notice beautiful lowercase lettering) to the trash with NO
>possibility for error.

So the computer said Are you sure (Y/N) and you typed Y without checking, 
yes that's obviously the computers fault. And as for the complaint about 
the case, if you really care I've got the source for a program which gives
the same functionality of the unix command ls but gives lower case filenames.
When the computer doesn't care about the case you can display it in either.
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From: alan@ukpoit.co.uk (Alan Barclay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Open Letter to an MS-DOS User
Message-ID: <1991Apr4.145507.5762@ukpoit.co.uk>
Date: 4 Apr 91 14:55:07 GMT
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