Re: Repeat: how do I erase mistakes from ~/.idata?

Skip Montanaro <[email protected]> Sat, 21 Sep 2002 07:57:02 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.mail.ifile.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
    >> I posted the following here a couple days ago but got no replies.
    >> I'm hoping everyone simply thought, "Oh, that.  Fred will reply."
    >> Only Fred's mail server is down.  Anyone out there have any
    >> suggestions?

    Jeremy> Fred, in this case, is ifile author Jason Rennie, who's been
    Jeremy> silent lately -- I'm assuming he's out of town or something.

    Jeremy> If you look at the ifile faq, the internal structure of the
    Jeremy> ifile database is documented.  I suspect a little work with
    Jeremy> emacs might solve your problem, but I couldn't swear to it.

Thanks, I found that and came up with a little Python script:

    http://manatee.mojam.com/~skip/python/delifilecat.py

I know it will run with Python 2.2 or later.  I may run with 2.0 or 2.1 as
well.

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