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Re: Suggestion for rm(1)


From: C de-Avillez
Subject: Re: Suggestion for rm(1)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:17:34 -0600

On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:08:33 +0000
Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> wrote:

> 2010/3/10 Pádraig Brady <address@hidden>:
> > How about just doing: s/is usually/might be/
> 
> That seems to me to go a little too far towards reassuring the user
> that the data has probably gone. We want to say two not obviously
> conflicting things:
> 
> 1. After rm the data is most probably still there.
> 
> 2. After rm it's probably quite a bit of trouble to recover it.
> 

How about "... it might be possible, but not easy, to recover ..."?

Cheers,

..C..

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