>> Yeah, MS asserts that COM is usable on other platforms as well.
> 
> I think what they mean is that COM, in *theory*, can be ported to other 
> platforms. In much the same way that .NET can be reimplemented on other 
> platforms.

The documentation seems to suggest that MS COM is based on some 
open-standard COM with a few extensions, and that it's *supposed* to 
interoperate with other implementations of that standard.

(Admittedly, if it's anything like IE and its "standards", this won't be 
much fun...)

>> Anybody know how you actually do this?
> 
> We had to write dcom libraries to link to Tcl to do this. It was pretty 
> ugly, and very fragile.

Heh. Fun.

Give me ARexx any day. :-P

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