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From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
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Subject: Re: Odd 'rm' behaviour (WinXP)
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Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 22:34:56 -0600 (CST)
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> Very strange:

Very.  I certainly don't see this on Windows 2000.  My Win XP system
is on a disk in a box (the computer is booted into Windows 2000
now) and I would have to drive to work and physically swap disks.
So I don't plan to do any XP testing for another couple of weeks.

> But if I delete a file using 'rm', a hidden 'deleted' directory
> is created, along with 'deleted.001' (== the deleted file) and
> 'index' (== links files to original names) files.
> This of course makes rm nearly useless.

Some sort of undelete protection feature?  A waste basket?  Sigh.
Hopefully there is some way to turn such insane behavior off ...