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wila
11-Jan-2019, 07:18 PM
Hi,

Installed beta1, in the bin folder there's a file WIN95DLL.DLL

Wot? How about a DOSDLL.DLL?

Edit: FWIW, this file was in earlier installs, just wonder if it is actually still being used. Note that it changes case - all uppercase - in contrast to earlier versions and it also has a changed date "3/07/2017" instead of "08/07/1996".

Oh oh oh and beta1 is a wopping 100MB smaller than alfa4. That's a huge change.
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Wil

Harm Wibier
13-Jan-2019, 01:51 PM
Thanks for notifying us, we'll review the usage of these in a future revision. Were did you find dosdll.dll, I don't see it in the 19.1 bin folder.

Note that the installer is mainly smaller because it uses (better) compression.

Mike Peat
13-Jan-2019, 02:16 PM
Harm

I think Wil was "pulling your leg" regarding DOSDLL.dll... but I could be wrong. ;)

Mike

Harm Wibier
13-Jan-2019, 02:26 PM
Yeah, I think he does, walked into that trap with my eyes open.. :rolleyes:

wila
13-Jan-2019, 03:51 PM
Harm

I think Wil was "pulling your leg" regarding DOSDLL.dll... but I could be wrong. ;)

Mike :p

DOS and DLL's, there I thought it was obvious...

Then again, not everyone might realize that DLL files did not exist before Windows.
Although in earlier versions of Windows, windows was running within DOS, so it might be debatable.

The win95dll.dll is just a strange file to see in a runtime from this day and age, I have no further objections to this particular file.
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Wil