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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

G.J.W. Hagenaars (xx247freenet.carleton.ca)
Wed, 20 Jul 1994 13:35:04 -0400 (EDT) 

%  [ ...trimmed... ] 
% 
% * 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 /'

And, for the 4DOS users, `del \/fqsxyz' will do nicely as well.

G.J.W. Hagenaars                  | postmaster National Capital Freenet
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