From: Warren Toomey <wkt@henry.cs.adfa.edu.au>
Message-Id: <199908090047.KAA00491@henry.cs.adfa.edu.au>
Subject: Re: The dsw man page
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.990809103649.24488A-100000@orr.mech.eng.usyd.edu.au> from Stuart Norris at "Aug 9, 1999 10:41:16 am"
To: norris@euler.mech.eng.usyd.edu.au (Stuart Norris)
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 10:47:38 +1000 (EST)
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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