Conference smurf::buildhelp

2041.0. "I need help cleaning up a directory" by AOSG::FILTER (Automatic Posting Software - mail to flume::puck) Wed Jan 10 1996 21:10

Date Of Receipt: 	10-JAN-1996 20:57:12.19
From: 	SMURF::ALPHA::masinick "Brian Masinick USG"
To: 	odehelp@DEC:.zko.alpha
CC: 	masinick@DEC:.zko.alpha
Subj: 	I need help cleaning up a directory

I did a bcreate on a large number of files, copied the contents of a
CDE snapshot from SunSoft into the files I created, then I checked in
the files.  Unfortunately, I forgot that many, even most, of the files
that I created were in BIN format, but I failed to use the -noheader
option on my bcreate.

Now I have a real mess.  I cannot seem to check out and check back in
the files because of malformed headers.  If I had caught this soon
enough, I could have simply done a bcreate -undo and started over.  I
understand that there is an option to change the header string (-c ?),
but I'd rather just start over, as I have a procedure to create,
populate, and check in the files.  I've tried using bci -defunct, and
that doesn't seem to help either.

The directory I want to wipe out of the RCS tree entirely is
/home/masinick/cde/src/doc/cde1/LearningProducts/sv_SE.ISO8859-1.  Is
there a way to get everything under sv_SE.ISO8859-1 completely
removed?  My sandbox is backed against ptcde.nightly, the name of the
sandbox is cde and the set is named swedish.  I'd sure appreciate
getting this cleaned up because I'm under the gun to deliver this CDE
Help library before BL10 closes so we have a chance to look it over in
preBL11.  Any help is greatly appeciated.

Thanks!

-- 
Brian W. Masinick	Easynet: R2ME2::MASINICK, quarry::masinick
Mailstop: ZKO3-3Y25	Internet: [email protected]
110 Spitbrook Road	DTN: 381-0013
Nashua, NH  03062	Phone: (603) 881-0013

Date Of Receipt: 	10-JAN-1996 22:05:44.14
From: 	SMURF::FLUME::jmcg "Jim McGinness"
To: 	masinick@DEC:.zko.flume
CC: 	odehelp@DEC:.zko.flume
Subj: 	Re:  I need help cleaning up a directory

Unfortunately, even bcreate -undo wouldn't allow you to bcreate again.

Without help from someone in "reng", your best bet is to go to the
sandbox where you've created these files and say:

   bcs -c" *" -all

Your use of bci -defunct may have effects that aren't easily undone,
though.

 -- jmcg

Date Of Receipt: 	10-JAN-1996 23:37:05.70
From: 	SMURF::WASTED::masinick "Brian Masinick USG  10-Jan-1996 2334"
To: 	Jim McGinness <jmcg@DEC:.zko.wasted>
CC: 	odehelp@DEC:.zko.wasted
Subj: 	Re: I need help cleaning up a directory

I'll try bcs -c" *" -all and see what happens.  I still think that
reng is going to have to bail me out of this mess though.

Thanks,
Brian Wed Jan 10 23:34:45 1996

Date Of Receipt: 	11-JAN-1996 09:44:23.53
From: 	SMURF::FLUME::johnf "John Flanagan USG Test Johnf Tools Group  11-Jan-1996 0941"
To: 	Brian Masinick USG <masinick@DEC:.zko.flume>
CC: 	odehelp@DEC:.zko.flume
Subj: 	Re: I need help cleaning up a directory

Brian, this is all set.  You can start your bcreates from scratch.

John


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