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From: tanida@forseti.css.gov (Tom Tanida)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows 3.1
Keywords: DDE OLE
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Date: 8 May 91 20:32:59 GMT
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Reply-To: tanida@esosun.css.gov (Tom Tanida)
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In-reply-to: cantwell@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Jeff Cantwell)

In article <1991May8.163832.4315@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>, cantwell@vuse (Jeff Cantwell) writes:
>I talked to a vendor of an object-oriented tool about DDE yesterday,
>and they said that they were not expecting 3.1 to be released until
>November (optimistically) and thought it might realistically take as
>long as 1st quarter '92.  One of the reasons cited for the delay was
>the difficulty in building a "standard DDE interface", which is
>supposed to be a feature of 3.1. I have no idea how accurate any of
>this is.

This sounds reasonable to me.  I have a pre-Beta (Alpha?) copy of the
Object Linking and Embedding protocol specification (downloadable from
Compuserve) dated April 15th or so.  This is an interface for
inter-process communication based upon the DDE.  Looks like MS has
some more work to do.  Eventually there are supposed to be OLE drivers
for all to enjoy and use :-), although MS Excel 3.0 implements OLE directly.

-Tom
tanida@esosun.css.gov