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- »»» DeInstaller v1.1a «««
- "The only way to keep your harddisk clean!"
-
- Beetware © 1994-1995 The Beet Research
-
- written by Grzegorz Calkowski
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- Disclaimer
- ----------
-
- The program executable and information above is provided "as is". No
- representations or warranties are made with respect to the accuracy,
- reliability, performance, currentness, or operation of this software and
- information, and all use is at your own risk. The author doesn't assume any
- responsibility or liability whatsoever with respect to your use of the
- program and information.
-
-
- Copying
- -------
-
- DeInstaller is published under "BeetWare" conception. It's very special
- sort of GiftWare. It means you should send a beet to the author (but not a
- rotten one! 8). Well, if you run short on beets send a disk or a small
- donation or anything else. (Have a hint: a bottle of beer would be
- excellent... :)
-
- This program can be freely distributed under following conditions:
-
- 1. Everything in this distribution must be kept together and
- unaltered. Applies to:
-
- DeInstaller (the program itself)
- DeInstaller.info (its icon)
- DeInstaller.doc (plain-ascii doc)
- DeInstaller.doc.info
- DeInstaller.guide (AmigaGuide®'ed doc)
- DeInstaller.guide.info
- MWB-Icons/DeInstaller.info (program icon in MagicWB style :)
- MWB-Icons/DeInstaller_alt.info (an alternate MWB icon)
- MWB-Icons.info
-
- 2. Copyright notices are not removed from executable and
- documentation.
-
- 3. No more than a nominal fee is charged to cover cost of magnetic
- media.
-
- DeInstaller is Copyright (C) 1994 The Beet Research. All rights reserved.
-
- The program uses:
-
- MultiGUI Copyright (C) TBR (it's linked together with program
- should be available as a shared
- library soon... :-)
-
- ReqTools library Copyright (C) Nico François.
-
-
- Introduction
- ------------
-
- Every time you tried to install to your system a complex program
- spreading its stuff all over your harddisk (fonts, libs, scripts, locales,
- prefs, ARexx scripts and other accompaning files) you wondered "How will I be
- able to restore previous state of my harddisk?". How many times you removed
- a program you couldn't figure out what file belongs to? How many times you
- found a file in deep nookes of harddisk and you said "WHAT THE HELL IS IT?"
- and finally you didn't delete it??? Well, no more...
-
- DeInstaller should be used during installation. It looks for all write
- attempts (including creating subdirectories) and creates an AmigaDOS script
- which, when executed, will throw out all the mess the installer did. It also
- looks for all overwrite attempts giving you possibility to backup existing
- files (extension '.old' will be added).
-
-
- Features
- --------
-
- o Ability to deinstall everything you've installed. Doesn't matter what
- you've used to install (orginal Installer by Commodore, other custom
- installers, install scripts or even you did it by hand... :)
-
- o Font-sensitive GUI, fully keyboard controlled, just Commodore's user
- interface style guide compliant (maybe except locale, sorry). But...
- not only. I followed Nico François standards, what means when you press
- a key assigned to a gadget it will be visualised and you can cancel it by
- pressing a SHIFT key. Even more. There is a keypress timeout (very
- useful when your other hand holds a cake, cup of coffee, bottle of beer
- or even a girlie ;-).
-
- o MultiGUI'ed what means internal multitasking. It's not so usable in
- such a program but, for example, while DeInstaller is tracing you can
- execute a script. Or even you can contemplate 20 "Abouts"
- simultaneously. Moreover it gives you proper (one pixel lower)
- underscore char even if you use the ugly topaz (another great Nico's
- idea - but mine is smarter, if you use a proportional font, underscore
- won't be placed too low... :).
-
- o 100% legal (well, almost :) & 100% assembly code
- (well, the last one is not really a feature, though >)
-
- o Thoroughly tested with Enforcer & Mungwall.
-
-
- Requirements
- ------------
-
- DeInstaller requires an Amiga (surprise?) with at least Kickstart
- 2.04 (NOTE: tested only on 3.0/3.1!, sorry :). It is completely
- useless without harddisk. It has no special memory requirements,
- should run even on 0.5MB machines.
-
- DeInstaller requires reqtools.library V38+ installed in your LIBS:
- (it's included in this archive).
-
-
- Installation
- ------------
-
- Copy the main program file and its icon whatever you want. There
- are supplied two alternate icons in MagicWB style (Thanks, Dixan :).
-
- Copy (if you haven't) reqtools.library to your LIBS: directory.
-
-
-
-
- Usage from Shell
- ----------------
-
- Bad news... Although DeInstaller can be launched from Shell no
- options can be specified (only when launching from Workbench - via
- tooltypes). But don't cry - for your convenience DeInstaller
- automatically detaches from Shell.
-
-
- Usage from Workbench
- --------------------
-
- When launched from WB DeInstaller looks for following tooltypes:
-
-
- SCRIPTDIR=<path> Sets the default directory for generated
- "deinstall scripts". If not specified, S:
- will appear in "Script" gadget.
-
- Examples:
- SCRIPTDIR S:deinstall
- SCRIPTDIR=WORKS:scripts
-
-
- NOREQUESTCHOICE Sets "ask" mode instead of "requestchoice"
- mode. By default DeInstaller generates
- scripts which use RequestChoice command. As
- it is not available up to 2.1 Kickstart
- specifying this tooltype forces it to
- generate script which use ask command instead.
-
-
- Program's gadgets
- -----------------
-
- The program window contains following gadgets:
-
-
- Program Specifies the name of a program to install and,
- indirectly, to deinstall. You can type here
- whatever you want, but it is wise to note here
- program name and version. Program name doesn't
- mean a script name!
-
- Script Specifies the script name to generate.
-
- Req As above, but pops up a file requester.
-
- Trace Begins the tracing for "newcomers" on your
- harddisk. If you didn't specify the program
- name you are kindly informed about.
-
- Message "DeInstaller on duty" should appear.
-
- Stop Quite self-explanating... finishes the
- operation.
-
- Then you get a deinstall script, executable from
- Shell or directly from DeInstaller using Launch
- gadget. (For your convenience it has the script
- bit set, so you can omit Execute command, when
- launching from Shell).
-
- Launch Executes selected script(s). It's for people
- who really don't like shell :-).
-
- Delete Delete selected file(s). It's intended for
- deleting deinstaller scripts but, of course,
- you can delete what you want with this.
-
- About Well, what to say about...
-
- Quit I bet you have seen something like this before,
- haven't you?
-
- There is also an information (read-only) gadget. Shows current
- program status (eg. info about caught files and dirs).
-
-
- Examplary usage
- ---------------
-
- I want to install program Mess-on-harddisk v8.71 which I've just
- pirated. It occupies 7 floppies and I'm really afraid it can fill my
- drive with hundreds of "don't-know-what-the-hell-it-is-for" files.
-
- So I...
-
- - start DeInstaller
-
- - type "Mess-on-hardisk v8.71" in the »Program« gadget
-
- - press »Req« gadget - it will bring you a file requester in
- S: directory (by default) and then type filespec (example:
- "S:deinstall/messonhd-remove") for the "deinstall script" to generate
-
- - press »Trace« what brings the file requester
- ("Deinstaller on duty" should appear)
-
- NOW, I INSTALL THE PROGRAM! (with installer, if supplied or by hand)
-
- (during the installation DeInstaller shows how many files and dirs
- were created on my harddisk)
-
- - press »Stop« button when installation is done.
-
- - press »Quit« to leave the program.
-
- Now I have program Mess-on-harddisk v8.71 installed. It filled my
- drive with hundreds of "don't-know-what-the-hell-it-is-for" files.
- And as I've figured out that this program is completly useless I
- want to flush all that stuff out of my precious harddisk space.
-
- - start DeInstaller again.
-
- - press »Launch« gadget - select the script (in this case it is
- "S:deinstall/messonhd-remove")
-
- - confirm the deinstallation process!
-
- After some flashings of harddisk led the harddisk is as BEFORE!
- ---------------------------------------------------------------
-
- So, now I can install program Mess-on-harddisk-bigger-than-ever-before
- which fills my drive with even more hundreds of "still-don't-know-what-
- the-hell-it-is-for" files. So I...
-
-
- To Do
- -----
-
- Well, in previous release (1.1) I enumerated here some things to add in
- future (BTW: it was over half a year ago !). Yeah, but I decided to not use
- assembler anymore (at least for utilities), so DeInstaller wouldn't be updated.
- Believe me, I haven't enough motivation to rewrite it in, for example, C. And,
- to be honest, there are much more exciting projects on the way.
-
-
- Contacting the author
- ---------------------
-
- Any ideas, bug reports, donations, etc. will be sincerely
- welcomed. Just drop me a piece of paper.
-
- My addy:
-
- Grzegorz Calkowski
- Rzedowice
- ul.Dobrodzienska 8
- 42-780 Dobrodzien
- POLAND
-
- phone: +48(0)34-575875
-
- E-mail: calkowsk@us.edu.pl
-
- Always remember:
- ----------------
-
- Beeting is beliving...
-
- and Amiga is best computer ever!
-
-
-
- Acknowledgements
- ----------------
-
- Thanks should go to:
-
- - Michal Prochownik for really constructive help with writting this doc
- and for those awfully pretty icons.
-
- - my brand new A4000 which seems to be faaaar more reliable than the
- damned A1200 I had before (and at least it looks faaaar better...:^).
-
- - Commodore for resurrection...
-
-
- Any greetings expected? Well, press some keys in the program window... 8)
-
-
- PROGRAM HISTORY:
-
-
- v1.0ß (16.10.94)
-
- o First BETA release.
-
- ===========================================================================
-
- v1.0 (25.10.94)
-
- o Ooopps... it worked only on my A4000 due to a damned bug causing an
- Enforcer hit in MultiGUI stuff.
-
- o Another Enforcer hit found in CreateDir() patch. Fixed.
-
- o Some Mungwall hits found. Fixed.
-
- o Startup code was broken - DeInstaller crashed immediately when
- launched from Shell. Fixed.
-
- o Small optimizations.
-
- ===========================================================================
-
- v1.1 (23.11.94)
-
- o AmigaGuide®'ed documentation included.
-
- o Important feature added: attempts to overwrite existing files are
- intercepted - user can let overwrite, reject or backup existing
- file (appends ".old" extension).
-
- o »Script« and »Req« gadgets added (instead of poping-up requester when
- »Go« was pressed..
-
- o New gadgets added: »Launch« (allows to execute scripts), »Delete«
- (allows to delete scripts)
-
- o »Go« renamed to »Trace«.
-
- o Now window can be zipped (zoomed).
-
- o Version string was incorrect.
-
- o A plenty of internal optimizations.
-
- ===========================================================================
-
- v1.1a (09.07.95) <-- sic!
-
- o Some nasty mungwall hits found & cured.
-
- o Hope it will finally work on anything else than my A4000... ;]
-
- ===========================================================================
-
- (23.10.95)
-
- o Not really an update (no version change).
-
- o Reqtools.library removed from archive. Is there anybody without it?
-
- o Uploaded to Aminet (and my E-mail address included).
-
-