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> From: "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have AT noavailemail DOT cmm>
> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:40:44 -0500
> 
> > DJ did not suggest to use PE in DJGPP.
> 
> "There is a way around this that Cygwin uses (PE is a coff-based format)
> [...]"

Which I interpret as 

  "There is a way around this that Cygwin uses (the Cygwin work-around
  is relevant to DJGPP because Cygwin uses PE, which is a COFF-based
  format)."