Even more unix holy war. Was "Clinton freezes U.S. assets .."

[Perry E. Metzger]

jamesd at com.informix.com says:
> And did I mention that in DOS you can type 
>    rename *.txt *.asc
> to turn all *.txt files into the corresponding *.asc file
> 
> but that if in unix you type
>    mv *.txt *.asc
> not only will it not rename your *.txt files to be *.asc files, but
> if you have only two *.txt files it will silently destroy the
> second and issue no warning that anything has gone amiss.

In Unix, I can use a single command to delete an entire file tree --
rm -r. In DOS, I have to delete each directory by hand.

This isn't how you evaluate these things, James.

> And of course I have already mentioned the unix "make" utility.

DOS doesn't even have a make utility -- perhaps you should do without
using make ever again, as DOS is obviously superior.

Perry