From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 16 21:46:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.dsl.frii.net [216.17.139.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 112D137B424 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 21:46:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f4H4kV842405; Wed, 16 May 2001 22:46:31 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200105170446.f4H4kV842405@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Mike Meyer Cc: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recycle bin for FreeBSD? :-) In-Reply-To: <15107.21087.162859.867127@guru.mired.org> From: Chris Fedde Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 22:46:31 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message