Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 15:17:23 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To: grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To: Diego Zuccato <dz AT bo DOT dada DOT it>
cc: pierre AT tycho DOT com, opendos-developer AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Usage of directory entries
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On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Diego Zuccato wrote:

> > > Agreed. FAT32 isn't much of interest. For the tools, we'd need dynamically
> > > linkable libraries...
> > True. We only need to decide on the DLL format we chose.
> Uhm... I'm quite a newbie in this mailing list, but I think something
> like DJGPP's DXEs could be the right thing...
Well... not quite. DXEs were/are just a quick hack developed just to support a
loadable 80x87 emulator support. They are limited to just one exported entry
which makes them quite troublesome in more general use. I was thinking about
creating a PE COFF loader for DLLs in that format? Comments?