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Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 19:42:01 -0500
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Adrian Cox wrote:

  > So what are the other problems?

Programs picking up the wrong version of the DLL and failing with little 
or no explanation available to the user (whom will, likely as not, fail 
to provide a useful report to the developer, if they bother to report it 
at all), for one.

Alot of problems with pure-Windows programs result from Win32 not 
globally forcing this one-copy policy itself.

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