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Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

Title:DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90
Notice:See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit
Moderator:STAR::VATNE
Created:Mon Oct 30 1989
Last Modified:Mon Dec 31 1990
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3726
Total number of notes:19516

1643.0. "Junk files on my disk" by MU::PORTER (Park at Mrs. Nelson's) Tue Oct 31 1989 18:48

    I'm just doing some disk spring-cleaning.  I found the following
    things lurking:
    
    [SYS0.SYSCOMMON.KIT.SRC]INSTALL_APPS.COM    7-AUG-1989
    			   ]INSTALL_SREVER.COM  6-JUN-1989
    
    These appear to be DECwindowsy.  Where did they
    come from?  Is the [.KIT...] tree junk to be deleted?
    
    ---
    
    Secondly, I seem to have a [.SYSHLP.DECW$EXAMPLES]
    directory with just a CLOCK.DDIF from some time in August,
    and a [.SYSHLP.EXAMPLES.DECW] with a full complement
    of examples from late October.
    
    Is the former directory junk to be deleted?
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1643.1Trash 'emDECWIN::FISHERBurns Fisher 381-1466, ZKO3-4/W23Thu Nov 02 1989 21:4711
    In the former case, I would guess that you may have restored a DW kit
    using backup and letting it create subdirectories.  This looks like the
    structure on the build disk from which backup is used to build the kit.
    The files are stuff that are used in the process of the installation
    and are supposedly deleted by VMSINSTAL after it is over.  Junk them.
    
    In the latter case, [SYSHLP.EXAMPLES.DECW] is the right place.  I think
    we did it the other way in earlier versions.
    
    Burns