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to: MARK MAGILL
from: GLENN CHRISTENSEN
date: 1997-08-26 11:17:00
subject: File

MM>GC> I noticed a file in my MAXIMUS directory called INSTALL.EXE.
MM>GC> This file is pretty large. Is it okay to go ahead and delete
MM>GC> this file? How about the INSTALL.LOG?
MM>        Kind of unusual it would end up THERE, but my favorite safe-thing 
to
MM>try for -ANY- file I'm not sure is needed where it is goes
MM>like this: MOVE it first. Create a directory that is -not-
MM>in your DOS system path, such as C:\GLENN and use your DOS
Brain f*rt here. I do, of course, have such a file. I just never
remember to use it. Thanks for the reminder.
MM>        One thing that you CAN safely delete are files left
MM>over from Max upgrades, like if you Max files ending in
MM>.202, .300 and so on. Those are safety files from when Max
MM>installed an upgrade.
Thanks for that info. I'll get right to looking for those during my next
clean-up sweep.
I don't know if I told you, Mark, but when I bought this machine with
its 1.2 gig hard drive, it came with almost 700 megs of pre-installed
stuff! So I'm looking hard to throw out everything I can.
Back when DOS 5.0 came out (actually, some time later) one of the
magazines printed a big article wherein they listed everything in the
OS, what it did, and whether or not it was safe to throw it away. I
would sure like to see such a compilation for Win95.
Which has nothing to do with MAX, of course.
 * SLMR 2.1a * Dammit, Jim! I'm a doctor - not a sex toy.
--- Maximus 3.01
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* Origin: The Gate - Coos Bay, Oregon USA (1:356/4)

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