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Re: FW: Certain files in the system32 directory are not listed


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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