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- From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
- Subject: Re: su File Viewer
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.174317.9626@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:43:17 GMT
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- Ian Jefferson (ijeff@alfred.carleton.ca) wrote:
- : > sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) writes:
- :
- : >This is why I prefer programs that are tar.Z's or zips to those that
- : >are packages. I can start one or more gnutars or unzips and stuff in
- : >background. Installer has a raft of mouse clicks and dreck.
- :
- : Of course its a bit difficult to uninstall zips and tars whereas you can
- : simply press the delete button on installer! I'm still trying to
- : uninstall bits of Who's calling from wherever it resides on disk(s).
- :
-
- Yeah, that one bothered me too. Most tar.Z's would unpack into a self
- contained subdirectory, but on occasion, one would dump all over my Untested
- directory, and I'd be picking bits out here and there for a while.
-
- But I can do this to uninstall a tar. (Assuming the original tar is still
- around)
-
- rm -ifr `tar -t tarfile.tar `
-
- I don't have a good answer for miscreant Makefiles that stuff things
- here and there.
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