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Re:What is a DLL?

• Posted by martin.stachon at worldonline.cz Feb 25, 2001
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Hi Mary,
1) This e-mail list is not about Eudora, the mail client, its about
EUPHORIA, the programming language.

2) DLL means Dynamic Linkable Library. It have to something with C/C++
programming language. DLL libs can accesed multiple programs at once and use
functions in them. Windows programs are using DLL heavily. This is the
reasons all programs have the same GUI (graphic user interface). For
example, when a program wants to popup message box, in DOS it must have its
own drawing routines - draw border, than icon, text ... Under Win program
just calls MessageBox function in some DLL (I think its GDI.DLL) and the DLL
will do it for him.

3) I dont have this file in my WIN diroctory. You can open it in some text
or HEX editor (Notepad) to get know what does it contains.

Martin

----- Original Message -----
From: <Maidie2 at aol.com>
To: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 10:39 PM
Subject: Re: Wrapping DLLs


> Please don't off me from your list as I am lurking to learn.
>
> I have no idea what you people are talking about, but you all sound like
> genius' to me.
>
> So maybe once in awhile I could ask a stupid question - like, "what is a
> *.DLL file and what does it do?"
>
> And maybe one person on the list could answer the question and the rest of
> you would see that and not feel you should respond also (unless you have a
> better explanation/definition) so that I'm not cluttering up the list with
my
> less-than novice questions that have nothing to do with Eudora -
>
> So -
> What is a DLL file and what does it do?
>
> And the questions of the week:
> What is that darned fat.db file in my Windows (95 and 2000) - History or
> Netscape-User-Cache folder?  What opens it?  What is it for?  Why can't I
> delete it?  Is there a way to delete it?
>
> Thanks if you can answer -
>
> Or maybe you know of a list that is more suited to my purpose (I can't
find
> one)?
>
> Mary
> High School Teacher
> I've got a lab and these kids want to know.
>
>
>