From: "Weiqi Gao" <weiqigao AT crl DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Upgrading DJGPP installations
Date: 25 Jan 1997 14:24:47 GMT
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Colin W. Glenn <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org> wrote in article
<Pine DOT GSO DOT 3 DOT 95 DOT 970124221642 DOT 16952C-100000 AT sparkie DOT gnofn DOT org>...
>On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Robert Hoehne wrote:
>>Mike A. Harris wrote:
>
>>If you want to un-install a package, which has a 'manifest'-file
>>(I think every package has one if it), change to your DJGPP root
>>directory and type there (for RHIDE 1.1 as example)
>>
>>rm @manifest/rhide11b.mft
>
>Is that the only reason those spacewasters are sitting there taking up
>virtual estate?  ie, can I ZIP up the DIR and kill it until I decide to
>'uninstall' a package?

Yes you can.  You have to do the unzipping and the zipping every time you
'install' a package too.

You can also zip up the bin directory (by far the most severe virtual
estate waster) too, until you want to use it.

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Weiqi Gao
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