Thanks, especially for the article. I am not yet familiar with multi-threading in Win environment, maybe this will help me better understand what's going on. -- Roger Aelbrecht http://web.wanadoo.be/driehoeksw ----- Original Message ----- From: <Eric.Engler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 10:01 PM Subject: [delphizip] Re: Multi-threading > >My application is not multi-threaded. > >Does Zipmaster/zipbuilder have any code to make it > >multi-threaded? > > For a quick answer - no, the DLLs do not make an > application into a multi-threaded application. You > have to do that yourself. > > I wrote up a paper about this multi-threading issue. > The good news is that there is no reliability problem > after all - the guy who made that web site just didn't > understand the subject very well. > > I am NOT recommending that everyone should start using > Multi-threaded programs! In fact, I have seen a lot of > problems with Multi-threaded code so I am not advising > you to use it unless you have a specific need to do that. > > My paper is attached to this message! It's not light > reading but I think I explain it better than Microsoft > does! > > Eric > > >