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- From: softbase@mercury.interpath.net (Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Question: What are DLL files for?
- Date: 14 Jan 1996 20:52:03 GMT
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- Greg Colin (greg@netlanta.com) wrote:
- : apjones@aol.com (Apjones) wrote:
- : >I need to call a C program I've written with
- : >a Paradox for Windows program and I've had only
- : >moderate luck. I'm told I need to have the Paradox
- : >routine pass variables between the applications I
- : >must use a C DLL file, but apparently the Borland
- : >for DOS compiler doesn't do that, so I'm thinking
- : >a Windows version will. Is that right? More generally,
- : >what is a DLL file? I know Dynamic Link Library, but what
- : >does that mean?
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- : No, DOS doesn't support DLLs.
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- Borland's Power Pack for DOS will allow you to access them; also
- Win32 console mode applications can access them.
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- Scott
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