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http://www.ccrc.wustl.edu/~chuck/wucs94-34/wucs.html

this gives a very clear duscussion of the problems at hand and one 
possible solution.  can we stop hearing about the special purpose hack in 
NT now?

you see, there is this process called Design which microsoft never seems 
to learn.  adding constantly to their APIs to fix special problems is 
typical of them.

(more references can be provided if you are still locked into the M$ 
kludge mentality)


b3n