Mail Archives: opendos/1997/03/20/03:43:17
Don't want to be picky or anything - but....
Don't people get just a little worried by being offered just a binary
like this. The one thing I was hoping the opendos world would open up was
stuff distributed with source - so that you can see what the program does
and can recompile it yourself. That is one of the joys of the Linux world.
Jim
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Takashi Toyooka wrote:
> At 21:45 1997/03/18 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> >On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Paul W Brannan wrote:
> >> Long, long ago, a wise person once wrote:
> >> > A port of binstat to DOS would allow you to find out what windows
> >> > DLL's are NOT being used by any existing installed software for
> >> > example. Then you could delete them, or automate such a task.
> >>
> >> Get FDDLL from Ziff publications. It's a freeware utility that was
> >> featured in PC Magazine a while back. Works pretty well, too.
> >
> >Where can I get it for free? Sounds like pretty soon we will
> >solve all of the Windows problems. And all from DOS! (Or even
> >Linux :o)
>
> I have a utility called REQUIRES.COM that lists the DLLs used by a
> Windows executable. I think I got it from PC Magazine, or something.
> It's miniscule (475 bytes). Ah, heck. Here it is.
>
> begin 644 REQUIRES.COM
> MZ88`4WEN=&%X.B!215%525)%4R!F:6QE;F%M921&:6QE(&YO="!F;W5N9"1.
> M;W0 AT 82!7:6YD;W=S(&5X96-U=&%B;&4D3F\@;6]D=6QE<R!R969E<F5N8V5D
> M)$UO9'5L97,@<F5F97)E;F-E9#H-"@T*)"`@)`T*)```````````````````
> M``#\OH$`K#P@=/L\"73W/`UU#+H#`;0)S2&X`4S-(8GR2JP\('0(/`ET!#P-
> M=?/&1/\`,<"_VP:Y(`#SJ[@`/<TANAT!<L^C>0&T/XL>>0&Y0`"ZVP;-(;HL
> M`8$^VP9-6G6S AT S[S!D!RK+@`0HL>>0&+%A<'B19[`8L.&0>)#GT!S2&T/XL>
> M>0&Y+`"ZVP;-(:'Y!@G`=0:Z10'I>/\]``)V`[@``J.'`3'2H0,'`P9[`1,6
> M?0&C?P&)%H$!,=*A!0<#!GL!$Q9]`:.#`8D6A0&X`$*+'GD!BQ9_`8L DOT AT 0'-
> M(;0_BQYY`8L.AP'1X;K;`LTAN`!"BQYY`8L6 AT P&+#H4!S2&T/XL>>0&Y`/"Z
> MVP;-(;0^BQYY`<TAM`FZ6P'-(8L.AP&^VP)1K8G#@</;!K0)NG,!S2&*#S#M
> 90XH70[0"S2'B][0)NG8!S2%9XMFX`$S-(0
> `
> end
>
> This works for Win3.1; I'm not sure if it works for Win95.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Takashi Toyooka <ttoyooka AT pobox DOT com> Verisim, Inc.
> http://www.magi.com/~ttoyooka/ http://www.verisim.com/
>
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