Re: .SO files

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bob wrote:
> Can someone help me understand .SO files?
>
> Are these basically the Linux version of DLLs?

No, they are more or less the UNIX version of DLLs.  Linux uses them as 
well, but they are not specific to Linux.  As others have pointed out, 
the shared library extension is .so not .SO.

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Ian Collins

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.SO files bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2013-01-22 07:00 -0800
  Re: .SO files Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-01-22 15:26 +0000
  Re: .SO files "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2013-01-22 16:37 +0100
  Re: .SO files "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2013-01-22 17:42 +0000
    Re: .SO files Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2013-02-08 10:41 +0100
      Re: .SO files Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2013-02-08 04:13 -0600
      Re: .SO files "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2013-02-08 12:09 +0100
      Re: .SO files "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2013-02-08 18:13 +0000
        Re: .SO files Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-02-08 21:20 +0000
          Re: .SO files "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2013-02-08 23:30 +0000
            Re: .SO files Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-02-09 02:32 +0000
              Re: .SO files "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2013-02-09 09:27 +0100
                Re: .SO files "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2013-02-09 10:09 +0000
                Re: .SO files Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-02-09 12:11 +0000
                Re: .SO files "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2013-02-09 14:15 +0100
                Re: .SO files "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2013-02-09 14:56 +0000
                Re: .SO files clarcky297@gmail.com - 2013-02-13 07:30 -0800
              Re: .SO files "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2013-02-09 14:48 +0000
  Re: .SO files BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2013-01-22 15:19 -0600
  Re: .SO files Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2013-01-23 10:25 +1300

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