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Andy Koppe wrote:
>> 2) if the length of the actual pathname to the DLL is more than 2k wide
>> characters (e.g. 4k bytes) then issue #1 is made increasingly likely,
> 
> Surely anyone with paths like that deserves all the pain that comes
> their way. 2k characters means 85 levels of "Documents and Settings".

No one will ever need more than 640k of RAM (W. Gates).

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Chuck

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