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- From: cvadrtbc@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 DLLs
- Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
- References: <1992Aug19.162237.2466@nuscc.nus.sg>
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- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 06:01:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug19.162237.2466@nuscc.nus.sg>, eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (TAN JIN MENG) writes...
- >I would like to shift some of (actually al but later) my dll files in \os2\dll
- >to my other drive whih is a HPFS Partition. This is partly to save space
- >on my (active) FAT partition and also to try to acheive a faster boot.
- >
- >The problem is that if I move all the files to (d:\os2\dll from
- >c:\os2\dll) and change the LIBPATH to reflect the new location, the
- >system will not boot properly because it still expects some of the dll
- >files to be still on c:\os2\dll!
- >
- >Is this a bug or a feature ;-).
- >
- >I could try experimenting of course to find out which dlls are actually
- >needed in c:\os2\dll and move the rest. But ... very tedious. Is there
- >any quick way to identify the necessary files?
- >
-
- You can delete MIRRORS.DLL and OASIS.DLL, they are libraries for some sort
- of porting of Windows applications. That will save you almost a meg
- right there. Hmm, those are the only files that I have deleted. I know
- there are more. I know a person who has fit OS/2 2.0 into 10 megs!
-
- Srikanth
-