- From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@erols.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 17:12:11 -0400
- To: Adam Victor Reed <areed2@calstatela.edu>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Adam, Thanks for a good explanation. If I could figure out what applications have the problematic DLLs, I could choose to run those on certain machines leaving the others available to shockwave. As I said, the problem doesn't happen on machines running W98, only on the ones with NT. Unix or Linux isn't, to my experience, a useful substitute because it doesn't run the software we need to use. Anne At 10:44 AM 5/23/01 -0700, Adam Victor Reed wrote: >On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:18:46AM -0400, Anne Pemberton wrote: >> Hmmmm .... and we have continual crashes on the NT machines when we try to >> use sites with shockwave games. Wonder what is causing the problem? >> >> Anne > >The problem is that in NT, dynamically loadable libraries (DLLs) >are shared among applications, and many application distributions >include non-standard replacements for standard DLLs. Thus it is >possible that you have installed an application which includes a >DLL that is not compatible with shockwave. > >This is really an architecture-level defect in NT (and W2000 etc.) >In Unix/Linux, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is a per-process variable, so that this >sort of thing cannot happen. There is no fix in NT/W2000 short of >scrapping Microsoft's defective architecture. > >-- > Adam Reed > areed2@calstatela.edu > >Context matters. Seldom does *anything* have only one cause. > Anne Pemberton apembert@erols.com http://www.erols.com/stevepem http://www.geocities.com/apembert45
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