On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 20:32 +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > I will certainly get the spelling wrong, but dvd stood for: > > dos ve danya > > Then you'll be suprised now, what you call dvd is really dsw. And has > nothing to do with `rm -r'! People who didn't know what dsw stood for > often called it `dasvedanja' (which means good bye in Russian). > > The reason why you used dsw at all was because rm couldn't handle > removing filenames with funky chars, it had zlich todo with removal of > subdirectories.
Interesting. I hadn't used this myself -- I think I was in elementary school this year. I got the story from someone who did use the system, and I probably have mangled my memory of the story over time. Thanks for straightening me out. shap _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
