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From: Albrecht =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=E4fer?= <albrecht_kaefer@yahoo.de>
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Subject: Re: DDE.
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:50:09 +0200
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Ivan Levashew schrieb::
>> Has anybody got bindings to dde to share?
>
> What is DDE? It sounds like an ancient acronym of the Windows 3.1 times.
>
> What is it for? Isn't it superseded by OLE?

You're about right:
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2007/02/26/1763683.aspx