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Date:      Wed, 16 May 2001 22:46:31 -0600
From:      Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Recycle bin for FreeBSD? :-) 
Message-ID:  <200105170446.f4H4kV842405@fedde.littleton.co.us>
In-Reply-To: <15107.21087.162859.867127@guru.mired.org> 

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On Wed, 16 May 2001 23:23:59 -0500  Mike Meyer wrote:
 +------------------
 | Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> types:
 | > On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 04:05:09PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
 | > > Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> types:
 | > > > Try the attached scripts. I hope that this is close to what you were
 | > > > looking for. Later.... 
 | > > Someone really should do these things *right* and put them in a port.
 | > > To see what's wrong with Duke's script, consider the following sequence:
 | > These are NOT Duke's script, as Mike suggests! They are taken from
 | > pg 186-187 of "Voodoo Unix" by Charles Russel and Sharon Crawford. The
 | > authors encouraged their use with no conditions.
 +------------------

Maybe I'm just unix bigot but it seems to me that this "recycle
bin" stuff is just silly dosoid hand holding.  I find that it is
better to use a real revision control system than to trust some
hokey scheme that just copies files around.  

Learn RCS.
chris

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    Chris Fedde

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