Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 18:06:33 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Uninstaller.
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On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Endlisnis wrote:

> > Well, Eli is going to tell you to look in the FAQ because he VERY
> > kindly put the correct "uninstall" technique right in there.
> > rm @manifest\package.mft
> 
>   But, that requires that you get the 'rm' program (which I do not have).

The FAQ also tells you where to get it: GNU Fileutils
(v2gnu/fil316b.zip).  Frankly, I think that any serious developer
should have them anyway.

> And, that will not work on a machine that does not support long
> filenames; it will miss all of the longer than 8.3 filenames.

No, it won't miss them.  Assuming the uninstall is done on a system
that was set up correctly (i.e., the package being uninstalled works),
`rm' will find the files the same way as the package being uninstalled
did.