NetDDE

[Christopher R. Hertel]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 02:57:51PM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
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> > "Christopher R. Hertel" wrote:
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> > > Just out of curiousity... has anyone played with NetDDE?
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> > > It seems that it might be quite powerful, if enabled.
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> > > Curious....
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> > > Chris -)-----
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> > Anyone?
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> A long time ago.  Was a precursor to OLE and COM iirc.

It's still there, in a dormant state.  It can be enabled (so it always 
runs), or disabled.  By default, it's neither.  Applications that provide 
NetDDE services can enable it for themselves.

...at least, that's how I read the docs.  I could be wrong.

Chris -)-----

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