Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/25/15:02:29
On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Colin W. Glenn wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Feb 1997, yeep wrote:
> > Shared libs sound good and all.
> > But I hate it when I have 500+ app's in one directory.
> > If you want top delete an app you no longer use, you've got to do some
> > seious searching to find out which binairies are for which app.
> > We've gotta make one helluva good standard to please both Linux users and
> > DOS users.
Nope, just run pkgtool in Slackware, Redhat's package manager,
etc. If a similar utility were made for DOS, all NEW programs
could be easily uninstalled using a similar method. A perfectly
good EXISTING example of this in DOS is the \DJGPP\MANIFEST
directory. It is very similar to /var/log/packages/installed in
Slackware Linux.
> Well this would be good, and I would like to add it to the wish list:
>
> Everytime a file is accessed, a Last_Access_Date_Flag is stamped with the
> date and time of access. Then you can kill the app, and after a while,
> you'll find this binary which hasn't been accessed since you kilt the
> application. For safety's sake, you _don't_ kill the binary, but zip it
> to a 'suspect' file. Then should you happen to run a program which needs
> the binary, you can retrieve it.
Just store your files in a stacker drive, that way everything
will always be compressed period.
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