> ever write to system directories. Another thought that came up that > was what I thought, a good idea - use attributes on the shared library > files to "register" programs using them. Then you could have an app > (such as an installer/uninstaller) search the file attributes of > installed shared libraries and remove any that had no applications > assigned to them. This, of course, requires that all application > developers "registered" their programs with shared libs by adding to > the attributes of the libs. Food for thought. > Deej Not being a programmer this may be a stupid idea... Would it be possible to have "intelligent" shared libraries that add the calling application to its attribute if it's not registered there already. Or does this add a major overhead? Just a thought. cu J.Seemer -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net