> > Hi John,
> >
> > You won't find any info on DDE in recent books, that's fairly old
> > stuff.  I had a look thru my book collection, a book on VB4 gave it an
> > entire paragraph.  Another book, "Developing Applications with MS
> > Office", (published in 1995 and referring to Office V4) has a short
> > chapter, amusing called "DDE: It's not dead yet!".
>
> At least it is hiding successfully. I have tried to use DDE a few times
> (from tcl scripts on win32) with the result that it works in test
> instances but I cannot ever be sure whether the DDE 'resource name' they
> made up for some application will be the same one I made up.
>
> Peter


DDE hasn't gone away, but it's been dead for quite a while.  DDE always sucked anyway, I have not-so-fond memories of UAE's from
DDE.  Slow, buggy, unreliably and only handled text.  Those were the days!

Tony

(not that things have improved much, it seems at times!)

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