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From: mjs@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Marc Sabatella)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: contrib from interex tape available
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Date: 15 May 91 17:07:02 GMT
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>I don't know what wacco, dld and winterp do.

dld is presumably the dynamic linking package by W. Wilson Ho described in the
April 1991 Software Practice and Experience.  It provides a fairly convenient
interface to allow a programmer to dynamically load and execute new code.  It
is similar in concept to Domain's loader_$ functions, SunOS's dlopen(3X),
or the shl_load(3X) in HP-UX 8.0.  The primary advantage of the dld package is
that is is much more intelligent about "unload" operations; it's primary
disadvantage is that it doesn't tie into the shared library scheme of the
systems on which it runs.

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Marc Sabatella (marc@hpmonk.fc.hp.com)
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