From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5293 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stainless Steel Rat Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Deleting concatenation directories Date: 25 Feb 1996 14:04:11 -0500 Organization: The Happy Fun Ball Brigade Message-ID: References: <199602230817.AA24187@fiicmal02.tu-graz.ac.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145918 32369 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:31:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:31:58 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA26256 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 11:23:39 -0800 Original-Received: from amber.ccs.neu.edu (root@amber.ccs.neu.edu [129.10.111.100]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 20:04:28 +0100 Original-Received: from delphi.ccs.neu.edu (ratinox@delphi.ccs.neu.edu [129.10.112.101]) by amber.ccs.neu.edu (8.7.1/8.7.1) with ESMTP id OAA19062 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 14:04:26 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (ratinox@localhost) by delphi.ccs.neu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.4) id OAA08397; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 14:04:26 -0500 Original-To: "(ding) Gnus Mailing List" In-reply-to: Steven L Baur's message of 24 Feb 1996 11:49:38 -0800 X-Attribution: Rat Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5293 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5293 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>>> "SLB" == Steven L Baur writes: SLB> Can zipfiles have absolute path names in them? No, only relative paths. That is, the leading root/drive designation is automatically stripped when the files are added to the archive. [...] SLB> As to ``rm *'', I belive that Gnus uses 'rm *' in that directory, but I am not certain. I know that it does not do 'rm -rf *', where the -r should recursively delete and -f to force deletion of files, including directories. Yes, this is potentially quite dangerous. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMTCyrJ6VRH7BJMxHAQFfYgQAo9okQmeqNgOlJpSyGchjVCa0zYXtNUDQ CNOfUUeTqzYD6qdgaNPo8dmhnsal1DH94D6JDGapyCu7M1fNFp8GazPymTgM0ySN 9Zjb+nPtJQKNsZNf+165+aDy5osXsa1rQVM/rAe2R5br++Q+Hpyb4Pp5r/L+trkf 16HC+Jzz6ws= =K7B4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Rat \ Happy Fun Ball may stick to certain types PGP Public Key: Ask for one today! \ of skin. http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/ratinox/ \