- From: Adam Victor Reed <areed2@calstatela.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 10:44:42 -0700
- To: Anne Pemberton <apembert@erols.com>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
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.
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