On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, GARY VANSICKLE wrote: > > 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.
That's what the "-i" flag is for. :-) But guess what? It's not the default! IOW, I agree here. The safety checks don't work (as I showed in <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-04/msg00116.html>), and they prevent a legitimate use of the program. If you really want to be safe, run "file" before running "d2u/u2d". Or, leave the safety checks in, but only if a "--safe" (or whatever the appropriate name is) flag is given. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
