Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] IDL clarification

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From: Tim Potter <tpot@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 07:33:02 +1000 (EST)
Frank Singleton writes:

> Great release note for 0.8.19. Thanks for the 
> idl2eth plug :-)
> 
> Anyway, I thought it would be nice to say "CORBA IDL"
> rather than "IDL".
> 
> IDL pops up in others places like astronomy, and visual
> data analysis, and is not the IDL we know from CORBA.

It also gets confused with the DCE/RPD IDL used by Microsoft
Windows in their RPC calls.


Tim.