First, since I'm using Mozilla mail now, there's a risk that this may come out as HTML like my Netscape 6 posts did last week. In theory it won't, but if it does I'll correct it. After demonstrating Netscape 6 to my wife next Sunday I'm going to uninstall it. I had a couple of questions about uninstalling programs. Netscape 6 is in /usr/local/netscape/. So I thought I would just go to /usr/local/ and type rm -rf. Now when trying to install a plugin on Netscape 6, and Mozilla, I discovered that I have at least one symbolic link. So what are you supposed to do about symbolically linked files when you are uninstalling a program? The linked file in Netscape 6 is no big deal because the linked file is in several sub directories below, so the rm -rf will wipe out the linked files. But suppose you had linked files outside of the directory of the program that you were uninstalling? You don't take hours trying to find the linked files and deleting them do you? Here's what I think. Tell me if this is right. If you have linked files outside of the directory of the program that you're trying to uninstall, they were probably put there by the OS before your program was installed. To delete those files means that you'd be deleting something that another program might need. For example deleting a file linked from Netscape might ruin StarOffice. Is this the right account? Is uninstalling a program by using rm -rf for its directory the right way to unintall? Thank you. Bob -- Robert G. Scofield [EMAIL PROTECTED]
