Re: [NTLK] root on OSX

From: Norman Palardy (palardyn_at_shaw.ca)
Date: Fri Apr 18 2003 - 10:44:50 PDT


On Friday, April 18, 2003, at 06:46 AM, Jon Wright wrote:

> As a long-term Unix admin (since 1983), I fully subscribe
> to this theory. When I taught Unix at TAFE (sort of like
> college for Americans) I used to start the lesson by
> scribbling a whole lot of commands that we would
> learn during the course including the readmail (rm)
> command with the really-fast (-rf) option and the
> all messages selection (*).

Hmmm

I'd always had that explained as

        rm - readmail
        -fr - handles french e-mails
        / - start from the beginning

I like yours too

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