Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 09:32:25 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Rafael R. Sevilla" <rsevilla AT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
Cc: DJGPP Mail Server <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: DXE
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On Sun, 26 May 1996, Rafael R. Sevilla wrote:

> I'm sorry if this is in the FAQ or in the documentation, but I don't have 
> time to find it in there. In the first place, if it's among the docs I 
> don't know where too look. There's just too many txi files and I don't 
> have a decent search utility for them (or is there one in TexInfo that I 
> don't know about?).

Info has a search command (press `s').  You can use `grep' (from the 
grep20b.zip distribution) to search through multiple files.

> So here's my question: what's a DXE file? I know they're a special form of
> executable, but what for? Can you do such nifty things like multitask them

They are a rudimentary DLLs designed to dynamically load code that is 
usually not needed, like the x87 emulation code.