Subject | Re: [firebird-support] Re: As a service in windows98, please, help a student |
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Author | Alexandre Benson Smith |
Post date | 2008-05-29T22:29:20Z |
Robert wrote:
that I read on Charlie Calvert's Delphi Unleashed Book. One of the very
few kind of software you could not write in Delphi is Device Drivers
(VxD) because it needs to run on a very internal ring of the OS and
Delphi does not support this kind of app.
I think, your application will not be sucessfull to survive a logoff on
W98, but what prevent you to say that your project could run as service
on platforms that supports services or the session *must* be open on W98.
A documented bug/limitation becomes a feature :)
see you !
--
Alexandre Benson Smith
Development
THOR Software e Comercial Ltda
Santo Andre - Sao Paulo - Brazil
www.thorsoftware.com.br
> I think TSR's are a DOS thing, meaning you would have to write a DOSWell, this could be not true anymore because it's a very old statement
> app, not a Win32 app. A DOS app wouldn't be able to use the Windows
> network drivers, which brings be to another thought. Could you write
> your app as driver? That should survive logoff.
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert.
>
that I read on Charlie Calvert's Delphi Unleashed Book. One of the very
few kind of software you could not write in Delphi is Device Drivers
(VxD) because it needs to run on a very internal ring of the OS and
Delphi does not support this kind of app.
I think, your application will not be sucessfull to survive a logoff on
W98, but what prevent you to say that your project could run as service
on platforms that supports services or the session *must* be open on W98.
A documented bug/limitation becomes a feature :)
see you !
--
Alexandre Benson Smith
Development
THOR Software e Comercial Ltda
Santo Andre - Sao Paulo - Brazil
www.thorsoftware.com.br