re: Re: FreeDOS UNINSTALL wanted / DEL @listfile tool wanted

Hi, thanks for your help offer. Feel free to keep us updated on your
results :-).

By the way, I did deliberately not use -r with
rm, because I do NOT want to remove non-empty dirs.
Imagine a .zip that contains
bin\
bin\something.com
that would cause you to blow away the whole bin\ when
uninstalling it. So I prefer using rmdir for that...
Maybe for example rmdir -ignore-fail-on-non-empty for all
lines of zipinfo -1 output that end with a / :-).


Here some example "install" and "uninstall" of test.zip ...

eric@parker:/tmp/ramdisk/eric > export LANG='US'
eric@parker:/tmp/ramdisk/eric > unzip test.zip 
Archive:  test.zip
   creating: foo/
 extracting: foo/bar                 
 extracting: baz                     
eric@parker:/tmp/ramdisk/eric > rm -vf $( zipinfo -1 test.zip | grep -v /$ ) ; rmdir --verbose $( zipinfo -1 test.zip | grep /$ )
removing foo/bar
removing baz
rmdir: removing directory, foo: No such file or directory


...

Well, I will spare you from other Linux examples, finally the idea was
to install/uninstall with DOS.

By the way, please do not use .DEB too much. My aim was to work with
ZIP files as most DOS software can be downloaded as a ZIP. Only software
explicitly packaged in .DEB would be useable with an installer that is
.DEB oriented. Feel free to auto-detect DEB and make use of additional
features like dependency checking and auto-configuration-update on install,
WHEN the package is found to be in DEB format. Otherwise, please make use
of the simpler ZIP approach.

Eric