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Re: creating tables

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From: Romain Strieff [TeamB]
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 00:00
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In article <3699DA34.BBD494C4@netfront.net>, pces politely paraphrased 
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> 
>   Oh..  well, I guess the word extern somewhat spooked me, seeing asI see it
> mostly when calling complicated Windows API functions.
EXTERN is just a command like any other, which makes the Windows API 
functions (or any other DLLs) known to your app as if it was built-in.
I use it a lot and I don't even understand 5% of what I do, the only 
thing that counts is that it _works_.
 
Don't let its somewhat strange look make you unconfortable, it's not that 
complicated.
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From: teamb@opto-pps.com (Romain Strieff [TeamB])
Subject: Re: creating tables
Date: 1999/01/11
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