Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> I spent an afternoon reading about DDE, COM, COM+, DCOM, OLE, DCE/RPC, 
> MSRPC and many other things that I can't even remember the name of now. 
> All of which make virtually no sense at all.
> 
> Can somebody explain to me what all this stuff is meant to be for?

Cross-process object-oriented calling.  Basically, remote procedure 
calls and everything you need to do it "right" instead of half-assed.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     Remember the good old days, when we
     used to complain about cryptography
     being export-restricted?

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