Delete an application in PhAB?

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Hi-

Here’s an odd one:

How do I delete an application in PhAB? I’ve got a bunch of old test programs etc. cluttering up the Application Selector. (I don’t care if I have to manually delete the app’s files afterwards.)

  • Pete
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Previously, Pete DiMarco wrote in qdn.public.qnx4.photon:

Here’s an odd one:

How do I delete an application in PhAB? I’ve got a bunch
of old test programs etc. cluttering up the Application
Selector. (I don’t care if I have to manually delete the
app’s files afterwards.)

Everything in a PhAB application is placed below a directory with
the applications name. A simple command line “rm -R dir” will
usually do the trick. If you have other stuff under this
directory that you want to delete, well you will have to
prune out the good stuff.


Mitchell Schoenbrun --------- maschoen@pobox.com

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Previously, Mitchell Schoenbrun wrote in qdn.public.qnx4.photon:

Previously, Pete DiMarco wrote in qdn.public.qnx4.photon:

Here’s an odd one:

How do I delete an application in PhAB? I’ve got a bunch
of old test programs etc. cluttering up the Application
Selector. (I don’t care if I have to manually delete the
app’s files afterwards.)

Everything in a PhAB application is placed below a directory with
the applications name. A simple command line “rm -R dir” will
usually do the trick.

I’ve heard that that may not be a good assumption. PhAB may hide some files elsewhere in the file system. A while ago I was having some trouble archiving versions of my application to our server (I was tar-ing and gzip-ing copies of the application directory). I was told on one of the newsgroups that it is safer just to do a Save-As to a new location because of these hidden files…

  • Pete
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Previously, Pete DiMarco wrote in qdn.public.qnx4.photon:

I’ve heard that that may not be a good assumption. PhAB
may hide some files elsewhere in the file system. A while
ago I was having some trouble archiving versions of my
application to our server (I was tar-ing and gzip-ing copies
of the application directory). I was told on one of the
newsgroups that it is safer just to do a Save-As to a new
location because of these hidden files…

Ok, I see your concern. First, there is no hidden file bit
in QNX as in WinDoz, although I don’t think that is what
you had in mind. You are concerned that there may be other
files stored outside this tree directory having to do with
your project. There are not. I know this because I save
and restore projects all the time using pax. Maybe the
person who misinformed you was thinking about the src
directory and below. There are definitely files above
this that are needed.




Mitchell Schoenbrun --------- maschoen@pobox.com

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Previously, Mitchell Schoenbrun wrote in qdn.public.qnx4.photon:

Previously, Pete DiMarco wrote in qdn.public.qnx4.photon:

I’ve heard that that may not be a good assumption. PhAB
may hide some files elsewhere in the file system. A while
ago I was having some trouble archiving versions of my
application to our server (I was tar-ing and gzip-ing copies
of the application directory). I was told on one of the
newsgroups that it is safer just to do a Save-As to a new
location because of these hidden files…

Ok, I see your concern. First, there is no hidden file bit
in QNX as in WinDoz, although I don’t think that is what
you had in mind. You are concerned that there may be other
files stored outside this tree directory having to do with
your project. There are not. I know this because I save
and restore projects all the time using pax. Maybe the
person who misinformed you was thinking about the src
directory and below. There are definitely files above
this that are needed.

Great news!
Thanks,

  • Pete