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From: "Mark Habersack" <grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Organization: PPP (Pesticide Powered Pumpkins)
To: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 13:48:39 +0100
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Subject: Re: PE executable format
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Once upon a time (on  6 May 97 at 17:43) Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) said:

> Chris Matrakidis <cmatraki AT eleceng DOT ucl DOT ac DOT uk> wrote:
> 
> > Has anybody thought about switching the output format to PE?
> > 
> > The way I see it, there are the following advantages:
> > -DLLs and shared libraries.
> > -Embeded stub.
> > -Lots of third party utilities.
> > -Win32 or mixed win32/dos executables (with the appropriate libraries).
> > 
> > The main disadvantage I see is that a new loader is required.
> > 
> > Any comments?
> 
> RSX DJ 1.3.1 seems to make that.
Yes, it has an NTBIND program which converts DJGPP COFF to M$ COFF
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