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Mail Archives: opendos/1997/04/30/01:32:44

Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 01:33:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Pierre Phaneuf <pp AT gulliver DOT qc DOT ca>
To: opendos-developer AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Usage of directory entries
In-Reply-To: <199704291847.HAA07010@buttons.ihug.co.nz>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970430013102.29911D-100000@server.gulliver.qc.ca>
MIME-Version: 1.0

On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Lorier wrote:

> >rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/RPMS/rar-2.00b3-2.i386.rpm
> 
> Yeah, but could your grandma remember to type that big long gruesome line?

Ah AH! We're working right on this at this very moment... :-) Text-mode
user interface to the RPM system! And things like background auto-updating
of package from FTP and so on... :-) (imagine receiving a message from
your "rpmd" telling you that "You are now upgraded to Red Hat Linux 5.0.
Thanks you for supporting Red Hat!")

Pierre Phaneuf

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