EricofSD opened this issue on Oct 05, 2002 ยท 7 posts
EricofSD posted Sat, 05 October 2002 at 11:04 PM
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Ok, so Poser and Roxio and Symantec and AOl and yada yada like to overwrite the standard ms dll's and sys' with their own tweaked codes. This is a practice that needs to stop. Stay with a standardized protocol. (not that I think MS should be the standard, but until someone else comes along to set an industry spec, we are stuck with M$). So, what happens when program x of the future has version 5.00.3.xxx of this file and it overwrites when loaded? We all get hosed again. I remember some years ago when Norton 95 came out and AOL 3 I think. Tons of problems. I called Norton, they pointed the finger at AOL. Back then, Steve Chase was personally available so I called him, he pointed at Norton. I set up a conference call to both and they agreed to rewrite both programs. It was a dcom file issue as I recall. You know, this really sux. Just go standard and if you need something special, write your own dll/sys and don't overwrite the existing ones!!!!!