Jim Henderson wrote:
> work together because of differences in DLL versions. 

I suppose it's not completely solved anywhere, no. But it's a lot better 
than it was. At least DLL hell only affects third-party DLLs now, and 
installing software that *doesn't* share DLLs won't break your code. :-)

It used to be a lot worse, tho, especially with things like third-party tcp 
stacks (i.e., winsock.dll), where every browser came with a different 
implementation of TCP and such.  Or the MS C runtimes, or the "New" 3D 
button graphics libraries, etc.  People would do things like try to replace 
the GUI libraries with their own in order to put their own "theme" on 
things, thereby breaking everyone else who actually based their code on 
released OS files. :-)

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Ouch ouch ouch!"
   "What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
   "No, I have Chopstick Tunnel Syndrome."

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