way back on a Dec Vax
operator was deleting a users account. now forgive me ive not touched vax syntax in a long time. IIRC he was trying to do
del [...]*.*.*
which should have deleted all the files in this folder and all folders below but did this
del [*...]*.*.*
which started at the root of the drive deleting everything under it... oops. back to the mag tapes.