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This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985 Philadelphia police fired thousands of rounds at the MOVE house, city officials approved dropping an explosive device on the roof, the resulting fire was allowed to burn, 11 people—including five children—died, and 61 homes were destroyed. Philadelphia City Council later called it a “brutal attack carried out by the City of Philadelphia on its own citizens” and acknowledged that no individual faced criminal consequences for the bombing. One timeline correction worth preserving for the BHP record: the major previous MOVE-police confrontation was August 8, 1978, about seven years before the bombing, not a year or two earlier. Officer James Ramp was killed, other police and firefighters were wounded, nine MOVE members were later convicted, and television cameras recorded police beating Delbert Africa during his arrest. The 1985 MOVE Commission later specifically criticized city planners for failing to adequately use lessons from that 1978 confrontation. And that actually strengthens the point you’re making: 1985 did not happen without precedent or institutional memory. There had already been a deadly confrontation with MOVE, years of conflict, negotiations and police involvement before Osage Avenue.

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del (command)

del / erase
DevelopersDEC, Microware, Microsoft, IBM, DR, Datalight, Novell, JP Software, ReactOS Contributors
Operating systemRT-11, OS/8, RSX-11, OpenVMS, DOS, OS-9, MSX-DOS, FlexOS, SISNE plus, OS/2, Windows, ReactOS, KolibriOS, SymbOS, DexOS
PlatformCross-platform
TypeCommand

In computing, del (or erase) is a command in command-line interpreters (shells) such as COMMAND.COM, cmd.exe, 4DOS, NDOS, 4OS2, 4NT and Windows PowerShell. It is used to delete one or more files or directories from a file system.

Implementations

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The command is available for various operating systems including DOS, Microware OS-9,[1] IBM OS/2,[2] Microsoft Windows[3] and ReactOS.[4] It is analogous to the Unix rm command and to the Stratus OpenVOS delete_file and delete_dircommands.[5]

DEC RT-11,[6] OS/8,[7] RSX-11,[8] and OpenVMS[9] also provide the delete command which can be contracted to del. AmigaDOS[10] and TSC FLEX[11] provide a delete command as well.

The erase command is supported by Tim Paterson's SCP 86-DOS.[12] On MS-DOS, the command is available in versions 1 and later.[13] It is also available in the open-source MS-DOS emulator DOSBox.

Datalight ROM-DOS also includes an implementation of the del and erase commands.[14]

While Digital Research DR-DOS supports del and erase as well, it also supports the shorthand form era, which derived from CP/M. In addition to this, the DR-DOS command processor also supports delq/eraq. These are shorthand forms for the del/era/erase command with an assumed /Q parameter (for 'Query') given as well.[15]

THEOS/OASIS[16] and FlexOS[17] provide only the erase command.

In PowerShell, del and erase are predefined command aliases for the Remove-Item cmdlet which serves the same purpose.

Syntax

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>del filename
>erase filename

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Paul S. Dayan (1992). The OS-9 Guru - 1 : The Facts. Galactic Industrial Limited. ISBN 0-9519228-0-7.
  2. ^ "JaTomes Help - OS/2 Commands". Archived from the original on 2019-04-14. Retrieved 2019-07-20.
  3. ^ "Del". docs.microsoft.com. 31 August 2016.
  4. ^ "reactos/reactos". GitHub. 3 January 2022.
  5. ^ "Reference manual" (PDF). stratadoc.stratus.com. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
  6. ^ "RT-11 HELP FILE". paleoferrosaurus.com. Archived from the original on 2018-07-17. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
  7. ^ "Concise Command Language" (CCL)."OS/8 Handbook" (PDF). April 1974. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  8. ^ John F. Pieper (1987). RSX A Guide for Users (PDF). Digital Equipment Corporation. ISBN 0-932376-90-8. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
  9. ^ "OpenVMS User's Manual". www.itec.suny.edu.[permanent dead link]
  10. ^ Rügheimer, Hannes; Spanik, Christian (September 14, 1988). AmigaDOS quick reference. Grand Rapids, Mi : Abacus. ISBN 9781557550491 – via Internet Archive.
  11. ^ "FLEX 2.0 User's Manual" (PDF).
  12. ^ 86-DOS - Disk Operating System for the 8086 - User's Manual (PDF). Version 0.3 (Preliminary ed.). Seattle, Washington, USA: Seattle Computer Products, Inc. 1980. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-07-14. Retrieved 2019-07-14. (59 pages)
  13. ^ Wolverton, Van (2003). Running MS-DOS Version 6.22 (20th Anniversary Edition), 6th Revised edition. Microsoft Press. ISBN 0-7356-1812-7.
  14. ^ "Datalight ROM-DOS User's Guide" (PDF). www.datalight.com.
  15. ^ DR DOS 6.0 User Guide Optimisation and Configuration Tips
  16. ^ THEOS/OASIS User′s Handbook
  17. ^ "FlexOS User's Guide" (PDF). www.bitsavers.org. 1986. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-09-25. Retrieved 2020-09-14.

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Del (command)

In computing, del (or erase) is a command in command-line interpreters (shells) such as COMMAND.COM, cmd.exe, 4DOS, NDOS, 4OS2, 4NT and Windows PowerShell. It is used to delete one or more files or directories from a file system.

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Rm (Unix)

rm, short for remove, is a shell command for removing files (which includes special files such as directories) from the file system. The command may not actually delete a file (release its storage for reuse) since it only unlinks it – removes a hard link to a file via the unlink() system call. If a file has multiple links and less than all are removed, then the file remains in the file system; accessible via its other links. When a file's only link is removed, then the file is deleted – releasing its storage space for other use. Generally, a deleted file's former storage space still contains the file's data until it is overwritten with another file's content. The data is not accessible via normal file operations but can be recovered via specialized tools. Since this is considered a security risk in some contexts, a hardened version of cp may wipe the file's storage area when the file is deleted. Commands such as shred and srm specifically provide data wiping. Since rm does not provide a fallback to recover a file such as a recycle bin, its use involves the risk of accidentally losing information. Users tend to wrap calls to rm in safety mechanisms to limit accidental deletion. There are undelete utilities that attempts to reconstruct the index and can bring the file back if its storage was not reused. Originally, developed for Unix, today it is also available on Unix-like and non Unix-like systems, KolibriOS, IBM i, EFI shell. and Windows (via UnxUtils). The del command provides a similar capability in MS-DOS, OS/2, and Command Prompt. Like rm, the unlink command also removes (unlinks) files, but only one file at a time.

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