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> I don't mind the command line. The only problem is that it leads grown
> men to wipe out their directories. You think you're in directory X when
> you're in directory Y -- You say thrash them all! The OS says, are you
> sure?, you say, sure I'm sure. And that's that.
>
> I've never heard of that happening with a GUI -- there seems to be this
> level of visual reality check...
Saw something almost that bad earlier this year - someone accidentally dragged+dropped a directory on a server to a random location - those working on stuff below that were quite upset! He probably wouldn't have made the same mistake at a cmdline because of the caution that engenders. I agree that "are you sure" msgs are worthless; but file versioning/undelete/undo is quite feasible.
John