reading from file bottom up

[JT Moree]

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Nathan Aubrey wrote:
> The whole purpose of this is for package management.
> When my system selects packages, as it finds needed packages it echos them 
> into a file. 

I don't want to discourage you from doing what you want but why invent
yet another package manager?

> But if package A needs package B but A is not installed, it will be echoed 
> into a file, then package B after it.
> 
> Then when the installer runs, it will install A first, then B, but A will fail 
> because it needs B installed first...

This sounds like a 'stack'.  You might google for stack programming
concepts to get some ideas.

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JT Morée
PC Xperience, Inc.
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