Subject: Re: installer wish-list
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: None <brown@cards.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/08/1995 08:38:00
>On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Allen Briggs wrote:
>> I send a list of things that
>> I'd like to see in it...  A short list:
>> 
>> 	- Integration of current ffs support
>> 	- Integration of mkfs/newfs functionality
>> 	- Integration of fsck functionality
>> 	- Better handling of failures of various kinds
>> 	- Batch handling (select a group of files to install)
>> 	- Performance (buffer cache)
>
>I'd like to add a few.
>	- Batch handling in mini-shell (rm *.O, rmdir *, etc.)
>	- Forcible removal of non-empty directories (recursive rmdir/rm *)
>	- Partial install of archives
>
>Can you tell I really don't like man pages?
>
>	- Installation of gzipped files not containing tar archives
>	- A method of selecting a MacOS path other than the most recently
>	  used archive install path for cpin and cpout
>	- How about at least an error message when the archive isn't valid....

Just one more wish,

        - How about allowing installation of non-archvied files.

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