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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: .DLL files under Windows 3.0
Message-ID: <1990Sep14.180015.4261@amd.com>
Date: 14 Sep 90 18:00:15 GMT
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In article <57434@microsoft.UUCP> kensy@microsoft.UUCP (Ken SYKES) writes:
|In OS/2 and Windows functions can be placed in a DLL.  A program that uses
|DLLs does not have a copy of the function in its .exe.  Instead it just
|contains information on where to find the function when it needs it.  This
|allows .exe files to be smaller.

Oh, that's how Microsoft got "winword.exe" to be so small. How
wonderful! :-)

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