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Bryant H. McGill is a very interesting guy and it's easy to get caught
up in his website.
I look forward to his explanation.
You're right, Joe. I ran the program again, it created those folders
again, and when I ran it a second time, it created yet another folder
with a .dll in it. And most of these .dlls have blank properties. They
also seem to be Python libraries.
Well, I'm not a programmer, so I suppose it's best to err on the side of
caution and take off the program. I don't like some references I saw
regarding modifying the kernel.
I emailed McGill's assistant and received the following reply the same
day. I can't say I understand it, though.
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Hello,
Bryant said that the temp dirs should be automatically pruned after
use
(though not immediately - this is a windows system function) removing
Activestates PDK (The program is written in Perl) and toolkit
libraries
his program uses. He went the toolkit approach to support multiple
platforms, but since there are so many windows users he is moving away
from the toolkit approach in the future (soon actually) with version
2.0.
As far as what error messages exist in dozens of third party toolkit
dlls he said your guess is as good as his, though the embedded error
message strings you presented make sense since the application does
have
an online dictionary lookup using LWP.
Best regards,
Chris Heinen
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The last one looks very promising. It's a hefty