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Subject: Re: COFF Format (was Re: performance)
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At 08:36 PM 2/2/99 -0500, you wrote:
>PEs already have an ms-dos stub on them.  However, the property that
>makes them useful (other programs can use them) also makes them native
>NT programs (they have a PE header in the right place).

So what's the problem? With the header it can't be used even with some kind
of emulation on plain-jane DOS, or with the header there's the risk that
running it in an NT system might cause NT to mistakenly assume it was a
native NT app, and bomb.

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