About:
athena-delete was written at Project Athena in response to the problem which many novice UNIX users have with accidentally deleting files they didn't want to delete.

Author:
Jonathan Kamens <jik |at| cam |dot| ov |dot| com> [contact developer]

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Homepage:
ftp://pit-manager.mit.edu/pub/delete/
Tar/GZ:
ftp://pit-manager.mit.edu/pub/delete/delete.tar.Z
Mirror site:
http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena/astaff/project/delete/rt/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		6 - Mature
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop, System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: MIT/X Consortium License
[Operating System]		POSIX
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Utilities

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	Patchlevel 17	14-Sep-2001	MIT/X Consortium License

 Comments

[»] Reaping may not happen
by Ed Avis - Oct 28th 2002 08:08:23

The manual page talks about 'deleted' files being periodically reaped (by a process that deletes all files with names beginning .#). Of course this will not necessarily happen on today's systems.

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[»] Changes to compile
by Ed Avis - Sep 14th 2001 09:39:36

To compile on Linux, you need to change two definitions in the makefile. Set COMPILE_ET=compile_et and ETINCS=-I/usr/include/et. These are for the com_err error reporting library, which bizarrely is supplied by e2fsprogs on some Linux distributions. Change these two definitions if com_err is installed somewhere else in your distribution.

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