So I occasionally dual boot back to winders, to keep the beast updated with fresh virus definitions and the like. I was tweaking the software a bit, and as I removed Outlook Express, I ran "strings" on it (via cygwin) and noticed 4 counts of "File written by Adobe PhotoShop 4.0". Two of them are preceeded by JFIF and two by 8BIM. Just curious, indeed, so I checked some other windows DLL's that way, and only found reference in twain.dll's credits section to an Adobe employee who helped. I did find one more, WINDOWS/system32/wmploc.dll with 12 references to Adobe. There's a lot of references to other companies in general, I understand, and I hope y'all don't find this off-topic for the list. I just wanted to share a little fooling around with unixy tools.
It looks from the OE's dll, msoeres.dll in my XP Home factory install, that MS used Photoshop to produce this. Not a crime by any means, assuming they licensed it; but odd that I'm not seeing it's signature elsewhere, if they did choose to license and use Adobe Photoshop. Collaboration makes for good results, I just can't imagine MS saying "Okay, we'll use your software". But I've read that many developers on the redmond campus use linux... Well, good evening. Hopefully this will spark someone's curiosity in other ways... enjoy. Ben _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
