Frank, at 21:52 on Aug 05 1996, you wrote to Dieter Mirbach...

DM>  What about DLL's though ? How do you detect which arcanely-named
DM>  DLL's are relevant to what program ?

FM> It's a good point. I've been thinking of writing a PissOff.Useless
FM> program, something like...

FM> List all DLLs, anywhere.
FM> Scan all executables (noting that these days this isn't just *.EXE but
FM> for example *.SCR, *.CPL and of course other DLLs too) noting which DLLs
FM> they use and deleting those from the list.

There is already a 3rd-party ~56Kb OS/2 ute which does precisely that,
called (naturally enough) SHOWDLLS.EXE.  Dunno about Win311/95 though.

FM> Delete everything left in the list.

Sadly, that is still a manual exercise.

FM> Whadya reckon?

Top idea.  Pity somebody else beat you to it.  :)

Regards, Bill
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