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Copyright © 1998 by Ted Pattison
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pattison, Ted, 1962—
Programming Distributed Applications with COM and Microsoft Visual
Basic 6.0 / Ted Pattison.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 1-57231-961-5
1. Electronic data processing--Distributed processing.
2. Application software--Development. 3. COM (Computer
architecture) 4. Microsoft Visual BASIC. I. Title.
QA76.9.D5P38 1998
004'.36--dc21 98-39267
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