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Bugtraq archives for 3rd quarter (Jul-Sep) 1994: Re: Wall and talkd pass binary data

Re: Wall and talkd pass binary data

Richard Huddleston (rehcs.UMD.EDU)
Wed, 20 Jul 1994 12:57:21 -0400 

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* C:\*.*<CR>Y<CR> which would erase all files in the root directory that 
* don't have erase protection.  Fortunately, MSDOS' ERASE command DOES NOT 
* have the equivalent of UNIX's very dangerous 'rm -rf /'

Just an update: DELTREE, new with DOS 5.0 or so, does 'rm -rf /'