On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Stuart Anderson wrote: > Ideally, from an ABI perspective, applications wouldn't need to know the > path at all. They would have an API in a shared library to use to access > and manipulate the mail folders.
Well, somewhere there needs to be a fairly stable interface. Whether that's a shared library or a name and fileformat in the filesystem doesn't matter all that much, although a shared library gives you more flexibility in how you store the underlying data. > I haven't looked closely, but I think that the c-client library comes > close to doing this. I've heard tell that the c-client library is grossly inefficient. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kragen Sitaker <http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/> Computers are the tools of the devil. It is as simple as that. There is no monotheism strong enough that it cannot be shaken by Unix or any Microsoft product. The devil is real. He lives inside C programs. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
