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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: HELP: Need copy of Selective Uninstall
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.181237.11505@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 18:12:37 GMT
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <hatton.727901825@cgl.ucsf.edu> hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton) writes:
- >brent@cco.caltech.edu (Brent R. Eubanks) writes:
- >>I read something in the help files about a Selective Uninstall,
- >>something that lets you remove apps that you installed. However, I
- >>don't seem to have a copy of it. I installed all of the OS/2 applets,
- >>but I want to dump most of them because they suck. Could someone
- >>direct me towards a copy of this application?
- >It is on the Service Pack, and presumably the new beta. It is only
- >automagically installed on PS/2's, I think. You can manually unpack
- >it; I don't remember the disk #'s, but probably 7 and 8-ish for the
- >exe and the hlp files. Unpack both to \os2, and try it out. Basically
- >it undoes whatever Selective Install does, so you can get an idea of
- >what it can and can't do from there.
-
- There's also another Selective Uninstall utility that is now in
- /pub/uploads/sharebbs on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu. Look in the file
- "description" to find it. It uses Visual REXX. This file will be
- moved in time.
-
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