"Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Also I am uncomfortable with the idea of UNiX. Among other things if you
> know the right command in Unix you can erase the Hard Drive your
> operating on, much like the DOS init command. The one advantage the Mac
> Operating system has had over the years is protection against
> accidentally wiping out your Hard Drive. To do so you have to boot from
> CD Drive with system disk. Then and only then can you erase the hard
> Drive with the system on it.
For the record, it's pretty hard to do this accidentally in UNIX,
and probably harder in OSX. Expect the command line itself to
be fairly hidden, and for the default shell to have restrictions
on rm -r * (or at least warnings turned on by default).
