The dsw man page
Warren Toomey
wkt at henry.cs.adfa.edu.au
Mon Aug 9 10:47:38 AEST 1999
In article by Stuart Norris:
>
> Whilst we are discussing cryptic comments, can anyone explain the dsw man
> page in the 5th and 6th Edition manuals;
>
> BUGS
> The name dsw is a carryover from the ancient past. Its ety-
> mology is amusing.
Delete using switches, from memory. You toggled in an i-node number on
the front panel, then ran dsw to delete that i-node.
A more authorative answer, I'm sure, can be found from the 1st Ed manuals
on Dennis' homepage: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/1stEdman.html.
Um, just checked, it doesn't say anything about switches.
I will try to dig up a reference to the `switches' story. I have seen it
somewhere.
Cheers,
Warren
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