What is the tilde for?

[Laurel]

In various MS articles the user is advised to rename clbcatq.dll to
~clbcatq.dll. The importance of the tilde is stressed. What is the purpose
of the tilde? If I search Goolge for "~clbcatq.dll" the only hits I get are
without the tilde. (What's with Google and quotes???).

After I performed the steps that followed this rename step, I find that
clbcatq.dll no longer has the tilde.

Can someone explain what's going on?

TIA
LAS

 

[Lem]

In various MS articles the user is advised to rename clbcatq.dll to
~clbcatq.dll. The importance of the tilde is stressed. What is the purpose
of the tilde? If I search Goolge for "~clbcatq.dll" the only hits I get are
without the tilde. (What's with Google and quotes???).

After I performed the steps that followed this rename step, I find that
clbcatq.dll no longer has the tilde.

Can someone explain what's going on?

TIA
LAS

The tilde character means different things in different contexts. For
example, when you open a document in Microsoft Word, a temporary file is
created in which the first two characters of the document's name are
replaced with ~$.

You didn't say where you saw this, but it sounds similar to the
following http://support.microsoft.com/kb/246499

Although that KB article applies to Win 2000, it includes the following
text, which may well be the same for whatever situation you have:

<QUOTE>
At the beginning of setup, Windows 2000 generates a file named
~clbcatq.dll. The existence of this file signals that COM+ setup has not
been successfully completed. When COM+ setup completes successfully, it
deletes the ~clbcatq.dll file.

Check whether the ~clbcatq.dll file is present in your %windir%\system32
folder. If so, then it's likely that something failed during COM+ setup.
</QUOTE>

In this case, the setup routine looks for and deletes the file when
setup completes normally. So your articles likely have something to do
with re-running some similar setup routine.

 

[Laurel]

Ah. Thanks. The absence of the tilde file suggests that my re-creation of
the COM+ catalogue worked. And, in general, now I understand a bit about
the tilde.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

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