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How do you read .dll files?

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jshelton

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I am trying to view some ebooks @ netlibrary.com, but the files are .dll

I did a little research but couldn't find much. Everything I did find stated that that file type was Windows specific. The threads I Googled were pretty old though. Is there anyway I can open these files in Leopard?

Thanks
 
.dll files are (Dynamic-link library) files, and are Windows application extensions. They have no function on Mac OS X. If you want to know about any file extension, you can search for it here.
 
D/L windows 7 preview if they havent removed it yet and do a bootcamp dual boot.

Then you can run windows to view the ebooks.

*.dll files are the same as the old DOS *.com files and are written in C++ I believe.
 
Thanks so far everyone. I have XP via Bootcamp, but I have recently been able to use OS X exclusively and it has been nice. This is the first problem that I have ran into. I am trying to avoid having to switch back and forth to Windows. 🙄
 
There is no way eBook's would be presented to you as DLL's. Just no way. Even under Windows where DLL's natively live, you wouldn't possibly find them used for this.
 
You can open a dll in Notepad and so probably Textedit as well. It doesn't function as an app then of course, but sometimes you can find out what something is supposed to do in between all the code gibberish. Probably not very helpful.
 
edesignuk said:
There is no way eBook's would be presented to you as DLL's. Just no way. Even under Windows where DLL's natively live, you wouldn't possibly find them used for this.
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I have attached an example. It clearly says .dll

Am I missing something?
 

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