I find it hard to realize that he wouldn't know the technical difficulties in replacing a dll while the system is running...
Maybe I am wrong on this one, but from what I believe, it is hard simply because Windows locked the file give ppl the impression that it is hard to replace a DLL. I believe the file can be overwritten even it is load into the memory, in theory the OS just need to reload it and then keep working...
I guess that is because there are different text code standard exists on different machines, the text (ascii) file might be all right if everyone use IBM PC. But once you read these files on some other computers, the meaning of texts might changed. While TIFF is a (set of) standard image format, such ambiguity might not exists. Another reason I guess is that image files are much more difficult to be modified than pure text files.
Pardon me for my English.
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I find it hard to realize that he wouldn't know the technical difficulties in replacing a dll while the system is running... Maybe I am wrong on this one, but from what I believe, it is hard simply because Windows locked the file give ppl the impression that it is hard to replace a DLL. I believe the file can be overwritten even it is load into the memory, in theory the OS just need to reload it and then keep working...
I guess that is because there are different text code standard exists on different machines, the text (ascii) file might be all right if everyone use IBM PC. But once you read these files on some other computers, the meaning of texts might changed. While TIFF is a (set of) standard image format, such ambiguity might not exists. Another reason I guess is that image files are much more difficult to be modified than pure text files. Pardon me for my English.