>Imagine having 64 > shared dll's associated with a program and 14 instances of that program on > a machine, then add 12 other programs using those same dll's (or whatever > the particular OS uses in place off dll's, whatever they may be called) > we'd now have 1664 files scattered across a machine when in fact 64 might > have done the job. Lets now assume they were around 100kb each, you can > see that having them on the computer only once, and all in one place ready > to share has some merits. Karl ... and apart from the limited Merits, welcome to "DLL Hell". You know, they all share a DLL but were developed with different versions. Install a new program, it "updates" the DLL and older programs (expecting the older version) break ... shouldn't happen but it does ... makes the old days seem a cinch ... you know, like on the Mac, delete a prog and it's gone... no depencencies, no registry with it's knickers in a twist ... Back to photography: remeber when people here moaned that talking f-stops was "counter creativity". Makes all this computer stuff seem a doddle really. Bob (f23) Talbot
