Re: Windows and DLLs

[David Jeske <jeske home chat net>]

On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 02:28:38PM +0200, luther@maxime.u-strasbg.fr wrote:
> you can execute every executable if you give the absolute or
> relative path to it.
>
> that is if in the directory /home/joe/myfiles/thisdir there is a
> file this.is.an.executable, you can launch it either by :
>
> 
> /home/joe/myfiles/thisdir/this.is.an.executable
> or by :

Try that if the program has datafiles and was compiled to find them in
/usr/local/this_program/.

> remember that unix system have been arround since forever, and are
> very mature in this kind of thing.

I would argue that the unix system has been around forever, and thus
is very dated in this respect.

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