Garth Wallace wrote:
> "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.
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> 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).
And it is virtually impossible if you work from a user account (that is
not root, even if you know the root password).
Jacek
