From:	"A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: deleting stuff from djgpp directory?
Date:	Fri, 09 May 1997 08:44:32 -0400
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Michael Flegel wrote:
> 
> 
> I just downloaded RHID12BB from R Hoene's website. And I wanted to 
> delete the old version before I installed the new one. So I printed 
> out the file from the manifest directory and deleted all files that 
> were in it. Is there a simpler way of doing this?
> There really ought to be... :-) If any onw knows, please email me.
> 

duh ... it would take less effort to write a simple utility to read each
line and delete the appropriate file than to print out the mft file and
delete the files by hand. try it. it would need three options:

-d : specify the djgpp installation directory
-p : name of the package (w/o path)
-e : read the djgpp installation directory from the environment (DJGPP)

then, all you need to do is open the appropriate mft file, read it in
line by line, form the full path to each file and delete it. voila, you
got yourself a nifty utility.
-- 
   Sinan
 
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