Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Yeah, well, I had noticed that you seem to know far more about COM than 
> I do. 

Not *that* much. Maybe a half a day's worth of learning?

>> Which implementation do you use?
> Smalltalk VisualWorks. I *think* it was v3.0...

http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/documentation/current/ReleaseNotes7.5.pdf

They were up to a version that supports it (7.5) five years ago. You were 
working with V3.0.  Perhaps you were using a pre-COM version that wouldn't 
run under Win98 or something?

>> Plus, you probably use Word and Excel, and they both support COM too.
> You mean VBA supports COM?

How do you think VBA talks to the application?  Of course it supports COM. 
That's pretty much *all* it supports. It doesn't really do anything on its own.

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