On Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 06:59 pm, etyrnal at ameritech.net wrote: > > On Friday, July 18, 2003, at 08:42 AM, Robert J. Fisher wrote: > >> am I living dangerously > > just keep in mind that unix will do EXACTLY what you tell it to... > as my first UNIX mentor (a wise man of many years' experience) said to me: "Double check every command you type before hitting return. Ask yourself ' is this REALLY what I want the system to do?' " It gets better with time, but even a few years on I make the odd fatal error...that's what backups are for I s'pose :) -- Tarik Bilgin Opalblue tarik at opalblue.com