Date:  16 December 1982 11:17 mst
From:  Lippard.DSOP (James J. Lippard)
Subject:  Miscellaneous Digest V1 #36
Reply-To:  misc
To:   (Miscellaneous Mailing List)

Miscellaneous Digest                              Volume 1 : Issue 36

Today's topics:
		Re: Protection from accidental deletion
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Date:  15 December 1982 11:27 mst
From:  Benjamin.Multics
Subject:  Re: Protection from accidental Deletion

Seems like a reasonable idea.  One comment is that you may be inviting
an RQO on your pdir (something that emacs is fond of serving you
anyway), but I suppose that if you don't have a lot of quota in your
hierarchy you aren't going to be deleting enough stuff to make a
difference.  The other comment involves extending what you have.  You
might copy the deleted segs to [pd]>!dl.=== or some such and then have a
logout/new_proc procedure of some kind that lists those files deleted
and asks you if you really wanna kill your process (sort of like exiting
bufedit in emacs).  If you respond no it returns you to command level,
allowing you to reclaim whatever you accidentally deleted.

Then there was the story of how Ed Brunelle, Charlie Spitzer and I were
working on an unnamed benchmark.  We had worked for days on running the
same mix over and over again with different tuning parameters and had
the meters from all of those runs collected in a segment.  At the end of
one of the runs, Charlie went off to dprint the segment so we could
compare the latest statistics with those already in the file.  You
guessed it, he typed 'dl' instead of 'dp'.  We were not particularly
amused at the time but it is a good story now.
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