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From: "GARY VANSICKLE" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
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Subject: RE: Bogus assumption prevents d2u/u2d/conv/etal working on mixed files.
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 20:16:18 -0500
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>  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.



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