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by baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id LAA14260
for icon-group-addresses; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 11:20:22 -0700 (MST)
Message-Id: <199812171820.LAA14260@baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 09:31:14 -0600
From: MJE <evans@gte.net>
To: icon-group@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
Subject: COM on Unix
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
Status: RO
Steve Wampler wrote:
>
> } I like your idea about an IPL pack. However, you have not incited me to
> } commit an act of implementation. What interests me instead is making
> } Icon parsing available in C language programs.
>
> } For that I will need to write a bunch of COM objects. That means
> } "Component Object Model" for those not in the know, Microsoft's upgrade
> } to the DLL concept. I have been mulling over this project for a while.
> } A little more mulling, and I might be incited to commit an act of
> } implementation.
>
> That will be interesting and certainly useful for those of you running
> under Windows, but not much use to those of us who live in the non-MS
> world.
>
COM is available for Unix. This article was from the start of the year:
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19980127S0015
COM is a good piece of design. Actually, the design was borrowed from
public-domain ideas developed by a software foundation. Typical
Micro$oft, but at least they bet on the right horses.
Interested persons should get a copy of "Inside COM" from Microsoft
Press. It's the primer for COM.
-- Mark