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Re: LYNX-DEV 2-8 compiled on Irix 5.3 (was problem)
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T.E.Dickey |
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Re: LYNX-DEV 2-8 compiled on Irix 5.3 (was problem) |
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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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