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From: jn@berlin.snafu.de (Juergen Nickelsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: increase swap space
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 23:12:59 +0200
Organization: Unlimited Surprise Systems, Berlin
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Paul Civati <paul@xciv.org> wrote:

> (The number of SunOS boxes I've seen with a rather large file called
>  something like 'extra.swap.do.not.remove'. ;)

I used to include spaces instead of dots in the names of such files to
make them even harder to remove. Of course this defeated by shells like
bash that do the correct quoting when doing name completion.

-- 
Juergen Nickelsen