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[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 16 December 2002 21.36, John Andersen wrote:
> On Monday 16 December 2002 06:01 am, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > > get rid of a link.  This is really stupid.  How can a beginner
> > > be expected to guess that rm is the way to get rid of a link?
> >
> > A link is a file. You use rm to remove a file. The deductive leap isn't
> > that large
>
> Say Anders...:
>   How do I get rid of a member of a partitioned data set on
>   my IBM 370 under MVS?

Having never worked directly with MVS I wouldn't know. I do know that IBM is 
pretty good with its interfaces, so it's probably a menu option. i vaguely 
remember seeing something in a roscoe menu, but it was too long ago, I can't 
be certain. If MVS commands anything like OS/400 it's probably something like 
wrkprtdtaset from the command prompt :)

>
>
>   Get my point?

Not really. Did you get mine?

If the manual tells you that a symlink is just another file, and the section 
on files tells you that you remove files using 'rm', is it really necessary 
to repeat that piece of information in the section on symlinks? Are 
cross-references pedagogically bad?