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" cc: "'OpenDOS newsgroup'" Subject: Re: [opendos] Wish List!! BAD Filesystems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Organization: Total disorganization. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk 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. Mike A. Harris | http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris Computer Consultant | My webpage has moved and my address has changed. My dynamic address: http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris/ip-address.html mailto:mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca URL of the day: http://www.sun.com