Peter Fitzsimmons wrote in a message to Francois Thunus:

 PF> The Prf api's don't even need PM to be running,  even though
 PF> they are in PMSHAPI.DLL (now forwared to pmmerge.dll).

If PM is not running, you have no guarantee that the PM DLLs even exist. 
If they do exist, they have to be initialized by the system, not the user. 
In some cases, such as a disaster recovery program, very bas things will
happen if you depend upon the PM DLLs to be available.
 
-- Mike


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