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Date:	Wed, 3 Oct 2001 09:28:36 PDT
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: DLL "object type" ?

In <3BBAFC6C.4CE9@peterskye.com>, on 10/03/01
at 04:55 AM, Peter Skye said:

>-- 1. Why aren't DLLs given a type of Dynamic Link Library, and why are
>they sometimes given a type of Plain Text?

Because some installation programs are dumb.

>-- 2. If I change the type of a DLL to Dynamic Link Library am I going to
>mess anything up?

No. It probably will not do much for anything other than consistency.
Nothing I know uses this information for anything other than selecting a
WPS icon.

Steven

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