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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 19:11:18 +0000
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They are not dependant on windoze, but you would need a windoze emulater to run
them, and for some unknown reason (like its far too much work when there is a
program that already runs pe exectubles, its called windows) wine has not been
ported to dos.

			Peter Allen

Paul Derbyshire wrote:
> 
> At 06:55 PM 2/2/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >> It would also simplify a lot of things, at least if you switched to
> >> PE format.
> >
> >If DJGPP produced PE executables, they wouldn't be DOS programs,
> >they'd be NT programs, and you wouldn't get to do any of the cool
> >djgpp things.  If you want PE format, use Cygwin.
> 
> Couldn't a stub be made to run PE executables in DOS? Or are they dependent
> on having NT kernel functions available?
> 
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