| 1 | This archives contains the sources for five programs (well, actually, |
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| 2 | four, since one is a symbolic link): |
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| 3 | |
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| 4 | delete |
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| 5 | undelete |
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| 6 | expunge |
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| 7 | purge |
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| 8 | lsdel |
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| 10 | The programs were written at Project Athena in response to the problem |
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| 11 | which many novice Unix users have with accidentally deleting files |
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| 12 | they didn't want to delete (Hell, I've done it :-). |
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| 14 | I am already aware of quite a few improvements I could make in the |
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| 15 | code (I am fairly certain that there are better regexp matching |
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| 16 | libraries *and* better directory searching libraries I could be |
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| 17 | using.), and I will be making them as soon as I am done with my |
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| 18 | current project. I would appreciate hearing any suggestions you may |
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| 19 | have and/or accepting any patches you wish to submit :-) |
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| 21 | I've only compiled these under 4.3BSD on VAXen and IBM RT/PC's, as |
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| 22 | well as on Mach on the NeXT Machine, but I assume they should compile |
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| 23 | with minimal trouble on other architectures (does SysV have the |
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| 24 | re_comp and re_exec procedures for regular expression matching?). |
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| 25 | |
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| 26 | If you make it compile on another platform and you have to make |
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| 27 | changes, please send me patches. |
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| 28 | |
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| 29 | My address: |
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| 31 | Jonathan Kamens USnail: |
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| 32 | MIT Project Athena 410 Memorial Drive, No. 223F |
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| 33 | jik@Athena.MIT.EDU Cambridge, MA 02139-4318 |
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| 34 | Office: 617-253-4261 Home: 617-225-8218 |
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| 35 | |
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| 36 | P.S. Please see the file "mit-copyright.h" for copying and |
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| 37 | redistribution information. Copyright 1989 Massachusetts Institute of |
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| 38 | Technology. All Rights Reserved. Etc. |
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