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I believe on NeXT there is a deletion application called "Black Hole" and
its icon is a tornado-like vortex.
Depending on your OS, though, the true state of data treated by a delete
action may differ; specifically, on Macintosh and PC (DOS or Windows - not
sure about NT), deleting a file normally just marks its space available,
but does not delete data from the disk. If the deleted file's space is not
overwritten, it's possible to undelete or recover it. Unix, however, has
no such undelete-ability, as I understand it.
Perhaps this is an indication that the product needs an enhancement -
permanent deletion, or marking for deletion with a second step for permanent?
Regards,
Peter Gold
pgold -at- netcom -dot- com
On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Cheryl Dwyer wrote:
> At 10:05 AM 9/3/96 EDT, Cheryl Kidder wrote:
> ...
> >Our problem is that once data is deleted in our system, it is not
> >recoverable. Because of this, we cannot use commonly accepted icons
> such as
> >
> >a trash receptacle because the trash receptacles used by Mac and Win95
> >enable the user to recover the data. In our system, the user cannot
> recover
> >
> >data unless they restore from a backup.
> ...
> As others suggested, a black hole came immediately to my mind when I read
> Cheryl Kidder's posting. However, I would suggest an icon that looks
> like a tornado, a whirlpool, a vortex...sort of a spiral which gets
> smaller from top to bottom...
> Cheryl Dwyer
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