[Info-vax] The (now lost) future of Alpha.

[John Reagan]

On Tuesday, August 28, 2018 at 12:30:29 PM UTC-4, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 08/28/2018 11:13 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
> > On 8/28/2018 10:52 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> >> On 08/28/2018 09:43 AM, Bob Koehler wrote:
> >>> In article <plrbbe$q5$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist
> >>> <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> >>>> On 2018-08-19 15:31, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> >>>>> At the University we used tapes until it reached the point where a 
> >>>>> full
> >>>>> backup or restore would take more than 12 hours.  At that point we
> >>>>> moved
> >>>>> to mirrored disks including one remote.
> >>>>
> >>>> Which is fine, until you want to recover that file that was deleted a
> >>>> while ago, at which point you realize that mirrored disks are not the
> >>>> same thing as backups... Two different solutions, to two different
> >>>> problems.
> >>>
> >>>     Yep.  In real life, I've done two restores for failed drives, and
> >>>     dozens for "Bob, I need help. I accidentally deleted a file".
> >>>
> >>
> >> Must not have been on VMS or versions would have saved the
> >> day, right?   :-)
> >>
> >> bill
> >>
> > 
> > Much grief can follow DELETE *.*;*
> > 
> > :-)
> > 
> > 
> 
> The equivalent of "rm -rf *"
> 
> Every OS has it's dirty little secrets.
> 
> bill

You need the /TREE qualifier for DELETE to match the behavior.  (Personally, it should have been /RECURSIVE and not /TREE but nobody asked me)