Re: uninstallation

["Erick Andrews" <eandrews@star.net>]

On Fri, 23 Jan 1998 20:43:34 -0500 (EST), Steve Cohen wrote:

>It's an excellent point you raise, and frankly, I spend so much of my life in the
>Windows
>orbit that I really don't have any idea what the answer is.  How do the others do
>it better?  I will leave aside Macintosh which maybe has an easier time of it
>given the tighter linkage between hardware and software.  How DO unix, linux,
>XWindows, OS2 handle all the system configuration and file lookup issues that
>Windows attempts to answer with its awful registry?  What mechanism does CORBA use
>to enable one component to find another instead of an OLE-like registry?
>
<snip>

UNIX, LINUX X-Windows and OS/2 document these interfaces far better than
MS Windows.  For OS/2 there are tools, both public and commercial, to manage
binary initialization files, if necessary.

CORBA is message based between objects.  It is an open standard so the methods
used to find and access other components are declared.

Erick