In the really early versions of UNIX, the "dvd" command was used to execute "rm -r".
So now for a correction, no, `rm -r' did not use dsw (or as you call it, dvd). dsw needed intractive input from the front-panel on the PDP to do anything. The way rm -r was implemented was by calling `rm -r *' for each subdirectory it traversed. This had been the case ever since the 1st edition. Infact, what you got as a result of running dsw was a coredump which you later executed to actually remove the file. :-) _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
