|  | Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/12/07 12:46 
Steve wrote:> "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
 > news:3_2dnRvfUIiaxXrbnZ2dnUVZ_o_inZ2d@comcast.com...
 >> Steve wrote:
 >>> "Sanders Kaufman" <bucky@kaufman.net> wrote in message
 >>> news:MNHFi.2377$Sd4.1809@nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com...
 >>>> Jim Carlock wrote:
 >>>>
 >>>>> And I'm wondering why PHP says .net support = enabled where
 >>>>> ..net is NOT installed. I'm baffled by this one. It appears PHP
 >>>>> looks for one specific file and it exists, PHP declares .net
 >>>>> enabled, but .net is actually at least a 50MB package of files
 >>>>> which fill a few folders.
 >>>> I seem to recall something from the docs in which the PHP folks
 >>>> strangely note that this is just a place-holder for something they hope
 >>>> to have PHP doing in the future.
 >>> again, your recall is weak and with a little investigation on your part,
 >>> you could keep yourself from embarasment. the documentation simply states
 >>> that:
 >>>
 >>> ======
 >>> This extension is EXPERIMENTAL. The behaviour of this extension --
 >>> including the names of its functions and anything else documented about
 >>> this extension -- may change without notice in a future release of PHP.
 >>> Use this extension at your own risk.
 >>>
 >>> ======
 >>>
 >>> now, does that sound *ANYTHING* like what you just dribbled from your
 >>> keyboard?
 >>>
 >>>> It's kinda like building a car with a sticker where the gas gauge should
 >>>> be.
 >>> more like an example of the twainian proverb:
 >>>
 >>> It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a
 >>> fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
 >>>
 >>> which is what the bulk of your posts consist of...opening your yap and
 >>> removing all doubt.
 >> You should take your own advice, Steve.  Sanders is more right about it
 >> than you are.
 >
 > i usually do. so, in what way(s) is this so?
 >
 >
 
 His comments like:
 
 "Those are all Microsoft thingies.
 COM is the Component Object Model - a version of the Windows Foundation
 Classes.
 DCOM is distributed COM - a patchwork add-on of Win95 that was added
 because when 95 came out, MS had not considered certain internet
 implications.
 ..NET is MS's latest attempt to build an all-in-one,
 everything-to-everybody architecture.  "
 
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