Strange Directory

[jludwig]

On Wednesday 26 April 2006 1:33 pm, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> Been trying to clean up my hard drive and I have a directory
> labled "all-20050412" in my home directory and it's got a lot of
> dll files in it.
>
> There is a README file that indicated it's there to  help play
> different sound files.  It says it shoudl be loaded in
> /usr/local/lib/codecs but I don't have such a directory.  If I
> make the directory and move everything there will what ever player
> needs it be able to find it?  Also, do I move just the files or
> the directory?
>
> Thanks
>
> Brad Mugleston, KI0OT
>
> There are 10 types of people in this world.  Those that
> understand binary and those that don't.
>

DLL's are MicroScat dynamic overlay files. These are used by the wine 
interpeter to run MicroScat programs. These are usually in a hidden directory 
used by wine and can/will/might be specific to a given user.
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