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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Why do you need a spreadsheet to remove the first few characters from each 
line?  I have done this in DOS with several text editors - is there a 
linux text editor that can block columns?

Does the removepkg command (in BL2) require that you first use installpkg 
(to create a log of files in a package)?

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, James Miller wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Carl Reaburn wrote:
>
> > I know this may be a cardinal sin.
> >
> > I imported the manifest file into excel.  trimmed off the first few columns.
> > inserted a column of "rm" in front of the file names.  Saved it at space
> > delimited text file.  Copied it to the BL3 machine and ran it!  bye bye to
> > all the files installed. :)
>
> Sounds like you may have stumbled onto the holy grail of program
> uninstallation under Linux :). How ironic that the solution should come
> from M$! But wait: you could have used OpenOffice's speadsheet program,
> then it would have been a fully open source solution! Shame on you for
> allowing M$ to get the credit for this one, when an open source program
> could have worked just as well /end ideological shaming attempt
>
> > Judging by the discussion over how to uninstall a package I suspect the pkg
> > command needs an uninstall option added to it.  It should not be too
> > difficult to use the tgz file as a list of  files to remove, rather than
> > add.  The hard part will be knowing if the empty directories were there
> > before the install, and if they should be removed or not.
>
> Steven is open to add-on packages in general. Why not work up a routine
> for doing these uninstalls and submit it to him?
>
> James
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