From:	Michael Flegel <FLEGEL AT physnet DOT uni-hamburg DOT de>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: deleting stuff from djgpp directory?
Date:	Mon, 12 May 1997 13:50:00 +0000
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On Fri, 9 May 1997, A. Sinan Unur wrote:

> 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:
duh, if somebody else has done it, why should I redo it?!

> -d : specify the djgpp installation directory
So what is SET DJGPP for?
> -p : name of the package (w/o path)
> -e : read the djgpp installation directory from the environment (DJGPP)
see above

> 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.
rm is such a nifty utility ;-)


  MLF/SLi

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