Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 09:26:39 -0800 (PST)
From: Evan Dickinson <evand AT wsunix DOT wsu DOT edu>
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On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Evan Dickinson wrote:
> 
> > 
[Plan for using shared libraries snipped]
> > 
> > This sounds good, but a stand-alone program that can update these files
> > would help.  Something that would look for programs that were deleted but
> > not removed from the database, and delete their entries.  Mabey it could
> > even act as a universal uninstaller.  There'll still be allot of people
> > who use del *.* to remove programs, and most DOS programs don't have
> > uninstall routines.
> 
> Perhaps a port of "file, locate, update, binstat, etc." and other
> utilities could simplify this.

Would you care to tell us non-Unix people what these do?