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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 19:01:23 +0100
From: Peter Allen <P DOT Allen AT pallen DOT dabsol DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Hello World and File size
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The whole idea of having dl is to save space, so putting all the
dlls into the programs directory would 
a) not save any space 
b) would have all the disadvantages of dlls in the first place.
One might as well just statically link everything.

		Peter Allen

Clemens Valens wrote:
> 
> Wouldn't all these DLL problems disappear if applications
> kept their DLL's to themselves instead of dumping them into
> one big DLL pool? This would also make application removal
> much simpler.
> 
> Since this discussion is about DLL's now, I would like to
> ask if somebody could point me to an accurate description
> of the DLL format. I have a DLL which I would like to
> modify a little bit. (Yes, I know that this might be
> illegal, etc., etc.). I posed this question in some other
> newsgroup but didn't get an answer.
> 
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