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Subject:Re: Advice needed on "Include" files From:"Brian, Flaherty" <bflaher -at- INDCON -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 12 Oct 1998 15:34:25 -0400
Thomas, et. al.:
Depends on the programming language.
C/C++ programmers referred to them as header files (*.H files).
TurboBASIC allowed you to include *.INC files during compile-time.
These files tend to contain code which serves some very specific purpose
(such as setting or resetting specific hardware; or setting packet size,
or packet error codes, etc.). The code is then *streamed in* during
compile-time and included in the resultant code.
Most programmers nowadays (especially C++ and Visual BASIC) use them to
compile DLL files which contain subroutines that are now called by the
EXE files.
