Re: SUM: Weird NetCDf problem under XP

And also a possible security hole? Just imagine if a malignant user had
replaced the DLL on the network with a viral DLL....

Michael Bane, Manchester UK

>> I want to thank James Garnett for trying to help with my problem.
>>
>> What happened strikes me as odd but I guess it is a feature of windows.
>> The application was working despite the NetCDF dll not being on the
>> local machine.  This was very disturbing for a number of people in the
>> office.  Further investigation lead me to discover that there was a
>> NetCDF dll in the network folder where the data files were being
>> stored.  Our code used an open file dialog from the Common Dialog that
>> comes with windows to allow the user to select an input NetCDF file data
>> file.  Somehow, when windows couldn't locate the NetCDF dll on the local
>> machine, it looked on the network where the user had selected the input
>> data file from  and used that NetCDF dll.
>>
>> Neat trick!
>>
>> Thanks everyone!
>> Matthew Hanna
>>

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