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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>...yes and no ...newer versions are supposed to be
backwards compatible ...and in the last couple of years, MS has been pretty good
about this ime ...but dll hell comes a callin' when third parties screw with MS
originals ...AOL6 was infamous for this ...they changed half a dozen MS key
system dll's without warning and the result was often chaos :(</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>...W98SE comes with a utility that does a
binary compare of system files and restores any that have been changed
...WXP now has Restore built in to get you back to where you were
:(</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>William Hindman<BR>"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country
can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the
world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the
freedom of man." John F. Kennedy, 1961</DIV>
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<A title=andy@minstersystems.co.uk
href="mailto:andy@minstersystems.co.uk">Andy Lacey</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=accessd@databaseadvisors.com
href="mailto:accessd@databaseadvisors.com">accessd@databaseadvisors.com</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, March 18, 2003 7:14
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [AccessD] Slightly OT:
Installation protocol</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>I'd like to know from you who install your VB apps on other
people's machines whether it's normal practice to overwrite system dll's that
are older than the one you're sending out, without asking or telling? A user
here installed a demo which installed a version of oleaut32.dll. Their version
was newer but it stll messed up my Access app, specifically where it talked to
Outlook. Do I have a grouse?<BR><BR>--<BR>Andy
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