Comments: Authenticated sender is <cca AT lightning DOT mgl DOT ca>
From: "Cory C. Albrecht" <cca AT mgl DOT ca>
Organization: Wolf in the Fold
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu, gnat-report AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 18:15:16 -0500
Subject: Re: GNAT-ADA-DOS bugs?
Reply-To: cca AT mgl DOT ca

On 25 Oct 95 at 9:47, Eli Zaretskii wrote about Re: GNAT-ADA-DOS bugs?:

>your case) DOS blindly tries to interpret the beginning of the COFF
>file as the EXE header, which sometimes crashes your machine, sometimes

Which shouldn't happen unless the very first two bytes in the coff file 
were "MZ" and what are the chances that a coff file will have DOS' 
magic number for .EXEs in the proper spot?


Cory C. Albrecht
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