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RE: Bogus assumption prevents d2u/u2d/conv/etal working on mixed files.
- From: "GARY VANSICKLE" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 20:16:18 -0500
- Subject: RE: Bogus assumption prevents d2u/u2d/conv/etal working on mixed files.
> Noo... Please, remove all of these safety checks.
> There must be some kind of user sanity presupposition. Or else the tools
> soon will be crippled to a state where they are unusable for normal work.
FWIW I'm with Hannu. Should rm ask you, "Do you *really* want to delete
this file?", or make a backup of every file you delete (ala the Recycle
Bin)? It should according to the thinking in this thread.
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