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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 12:38:34 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <199707161938.MAA08156@adit.ap.net>
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To: "Tharning, Peter" <peter DOT tharning AT capgemini DOT se>
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: RE: Code to NS486SXF
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

At 01:04  7/16/1997 +0200, you wrote:
>Ok, then I have the same problem as with a standard c-compiler. One can
>always buy a link and locate tool from a 3:d part supplier but that
>isn't always that cheap.
>
>(But an exe-file, isn't it rather straightforward in its design?)
Fairly. However, DJGPP does not really use EXE files. The EXE files it
generates are actually COFF executables with a small real-mode stub
prepended to load it. COFF may be fairly simple too, but I'm afraid I don't
know much about the format.

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net



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