FW: Certain files in the system32 directory are not listed

Matthew Woehlke mw_triad@users.sourceforge.net
Thu Jun 7 19:06:00 GMT 2007


Dave Korn wrote:
> On 07 June 2007 18:26, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> Dave Korn wrote:
>>> "  On 64-bit systems, Windows system files for 64-bit applications are
>>> stored in the $WINDIR/System32 directory. To avoid confusion, the system
>>> files for 32-bit applications are stored in the $WINDIR/SysWOW64
>>> directory.  " 
>> ...what did you expect from the platform that brought us the
>> ever-so-helpful sizeof(void*) != sizeof(long)?
> 
>   Actually there's nothing really wrong with that.  [snip]

True, but Microsoft is the /only/ platform I know of that decided to be 
different :-).

-- 
Matthew
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
(...with apologies to Arthur C. Clarke)



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