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From: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 13:06:01 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
To: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
cc: "'OpenDOS newsgroup'" <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject: Re: [opendos] Wish List!! BAD Filesystems
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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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