share libraries (again!)

F> From: follis@esd.dl.nec.com (George Follis) > To: timothy.hood@sltrib.com F> : The Unix man page on ar mentions that it is used to maintain libraries, > I > : have extended that to infer "shared" libraries, since a primary benefit > of > : putting objects in libraries is their re-use among other executables. F> : I think of libraries the same as "shared libraries". F> This is WRONG! [dissertation clipped] Again, you are only allowing "shared library" to mean dynamic library. The world has evolved since mkshlib (which isn't even available on all Unix systems) to provide better nomenclature. Start thinking *dynamic* library. Particularly if you ever get into Windows (and other GUI) programming. Those are called .DLL's. (Hence, DYNAMIC link LIBRARY). What was it in my original post that made you think that I said ar created a dynamic library which is loaded at runtime? --- ~ SPEED 1.40 [NR] ~