NetDDE

[Vance Lankhaar]

On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 13:22, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> 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?
> > > > 
> > > > It seems that it might be quite powerful, if enabled.
> > > > 
> > > > 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.
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> 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.

Yep, I've seen that - try firing up clipbook viewer. IIRC, it displays a
"starting NetDDE" on first start

> ...at least, that's how I read the docs.  I could be wrong.
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> Chris -)-----

Vance