Mail Archives: djgpp/2002/05/23/12:00:10
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> On Thu, 23 May 2002, CBFalconer wrote:
>
> > The "rm -f @XXX" should, I assume, remove everything listed in
> > file XXX. It does not. That notation does not appear in info for
> > rm.
>
> The "@foo" feature, called ``response file'', is described in the DJGPP
> FAQ list, section 16.4. Section 4.7 says how to use that to uninstall a
> package.
The point is that it doesn't seem to function. I found your
references in the faq, which basically say it is all automatic
when the '@' appears in the command line. Unfortunately you
snipped the portion with all the details of the commands issued.
I checked that the appropriate .mft files existed, and that they
contained suitable file lists, yet issuing the rm -f @XXX command
did NOT delete the files. I have also checked that rm IS running
the rm in the DJGPP\BIN directory. I have an alias for rm in the
form "*rm -i", which should not affect anything since the docs say
-f defeats an earlier -i, and I also attempted totally defeating
the alias. Just in case 4dos had anything to do with it I tried
executing the lines through bash, with no change.
The system is NOT functioning as documented. I can easily create
work arounds for the above problems, but the question is WHY does
it fail, and what else may be affected?
BTW, a very minor point is that "info faq" does not lead to
anything conducive to finding entries by section number refs.
Including the section number in the verbiage that appears at the
menu level would fix that.
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