RE: Linux vs Blue Screen of Death

[tgray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I only have two, what did I do wrong?  Do that MS god's dislike me 
or something?  (One can hope, can't he?)

On 6 Apr 2000, Scott Wood <members@kalamazoolinux.org> wrote: 


> 
> 
> --- "Bibbs, Christopher" <Christopher_Bibbs@compuware.com> wrote: > If
> you have Win95 or Win98 check to see how many copies of MFC42.DLL you
> > have.  If it's less than 3 I'd be amazed.
> 
> I have seen these things cluttering up various places on my PC as
> well.
> 
> > The stupid thing, of course, is
> > that you should only have 1.  It's a Microsoft DLL and the published
> > features tend to stay in place as things roll forward.  The problem
> > is, Microsoft exposes, but not publish, interfaces that will later
> > go away. When developers use those, they need to guarantee a certain
> > version.  How do they do it?  Well, they install their version of
> > course.
> 
> Although I have seen more on my various installations of win98, the PC
> that I am currently on here at work running Win95 has three copies. 
> Two - the windows\system and the adaptec installed version appear to
> be the same. Amazingly, the third one is different.  But who was the
> 'developer' in this case that bundled it with their software?
> 
> Well, it shows up in the Microsoft Personal Web Server 4.0 files... 
> And PWS starts at boot time, runnin in the background.  Oh joy!  (and
> people wonder why I am so fed up with MS OS's)
> 
> Scott
> 
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