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  3. From: stonecypher@star.enet.dec.com ()
  4. Subject: Re: Naming Convention for Named Objects?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov20.185237.25594@e2big.mko.dec.com>
  6. Lines: 32
  7. Sender: usenet@e2big.mko.dec.com (Mr. USENET)
  8. Reply-To: stonecypher@star.enet.dec.com ()
  9. Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
  10. References: <1992Nov13.184516.10985@e2big.mko.dec.com> <1992Nov20.031248.25792@microsoft.com>
  11. Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:52:37 GMT
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  14. In article <1992Nov20.031248.25792@microsoft.com>, alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks) writes:
  15. |>
  16. |>In article <1992Nov13.184516.10985@e2big.mko.dec.com> stonecypher@star.enet.dec.com () writes:
  17. |>>
  18. |>>Has Microsoft published a spec detailing naming conventions for named
  19. |>>objects? Names for named objects are system-global, so it is possible that
  20. |>>two different applications will (unintentionally) conflict, choosing the
  21. |>>same name for an object.
  22. |>>
  23. |>>
  24. |>>I imagine Microsoft intends developers to embed the organization and
  25. |>>application names in the object's name. For example, imagine that
  26. |>>Microsoft App1 and Digital App2 both want to create a named pipe:
  27. |>>
  28. |>>    \MICROSOFT\APPLICATION\APP1\MYNAMEDPIPE
  29. |>>    \DIGITALEQUIPMENT\APPLICATION\APP2\MYNAMEDPIPE
  30. |>
  31. |>This is a good point. We have previously suggested that "unique"
  32. |>names concatenate company, product, data type and version - but
  33. |>I'll suggest that something "official" get written into the
  34. |>documentation -- Alistair
  35. |>
  36.  
  37. Okay, please ask them to post a preliminary description, when it
  38. becomes available.
  39.  
  40. Thanks!
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  43. Tom Stonecypher, Digital Equipment Corporation, stonecypher@star.enet.dec.com
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