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Re: LYNX-DEV 2-8 compiled on Irix 5.3 (was problem)


From: T.E.Dickey
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV 2-8 compiled on Irix 5.3 (was problem)
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 05:49:25 -0500 (EST)

> yup, that was it: the default environment is called `safe',
> which restricts the usual  mv cp rm  in some way to protect the naive.
> when i entered  unsafe  & then  ./configure , everything went thro' OK.
ok (I have not seen this before - but there are a lot of those)
 
> BTW -- since i'm still a bit naive about some things --
> can i be sure that using  rm -r  ordinarily -- ie `unsafe' --
> will never remove anything ABOVE the current directory?
> this comes up eg when i want to remove the files from an old Lynx version.
yes: it will not remove things ABOVE the current directory, only AT/BELOW.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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