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From: Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: .SO files
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:25:09 +1300
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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.

-- 
Ian Collins