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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Nice thing to have: generic undelete
From:       Cristian Tibirna <ctibirna () gch ! ulaval ! ca>
Date:       1999-01-30 6:08:07
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Attached to the gui code and also activated for the commandline rm
command, this little tool can prove intself really useful in a desktop
environment. At least until the long promissed replacement of ext2 comes
our way.

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From: Michael Meskes <Michael.Meskes@gmx.net> 
Subject: Wastebasket library - safe file deletion package 
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc 
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 23:23:24 GMT

I just upload the initial version (1.0) of my wastebasket package to
metalab and tsx. It is (hopefully) helpful for those people like me who
tend to do an 'rm *' in the wrong directory. It provides a shared library
libwastebasket.so that implements a new unlink library call. If this
library is preloaded calling unlink() will not really remove the file, but
move it into the wastebasket. 

There are also some programs provided to access, restore or purge the
deleted files:
        - wbls:  list contents of the wastebasket
        - wbdu:  summarizes disk usage of the wastebasket
        - wbrestore:  restore file(s)
        - wbpurge:  remove parts of the wastebasket
        - realrm:  really remove a file no matter if libwastebasket is
                        installed or not 

Michael 

P.S.: I'm certainly interested in feedback. 

- -- Michael Meskes | 

Email: Michael.Meskes@gmx.net

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