DLL Absence

[Alex Rice]

On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 12:59  PM, Dar Scott wrote:
> But when somebody says "I did the DLL-call thing to get a list of 
> watchamacallits from the system and all I got was garbage" then it is 
> hard to tell whether one has set up the call right or whether "pointer 
> to unsigned long" is broken or whether the right system call is being 
> made.

True. But the success rate would be a lot higher, possibly leading to 
less support effort overall. Just a guess.

Regardless, we should implement Rev externals as a SWIG target! See 
<http://www.swig.org/> Another job for our army of expert C 
programmers, with spare time, who are lurking on this list. :-)

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