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  7. Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 16:32:22 -0600
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  9. From: Clinton Jeffery <jeffery@segfault.cs.utsa.edu>
  10. To: icon-group@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
  11. Subject: Re: Stand-alone executables
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  18. Wow, it seems almost EVERYBODY using DOS or Windows Icon wants stand-alone
  19. executables.  I sure do.  The question is: who is going to volunteer?  And
  20. if no one volunteers, who is willing to pay for it?
  21.  
  22. Since it isn't research, I have continually been too short of "volunteer
  23. time" to invest heavily in Microsoft-specific machine-level details, but
  24. I am willing to work with anyone who volunteers to do this for the
  25. command-line or graphical versions of Windows Icon.  I am also willing to
  26. hire and supervise a student to do the job, if we can come up with an
  27. economic model to fund it.
  28.  
  29. Actually, some information might help at this point.  Technical discussions
  30. with the NT Spitbol implementor or with persons who know Microsoft's object
  31. formats might reveal that the task isn't all that difficult.  There are
  32. several possible approaches, and I am not sure which would be easiest.
  33.  
  34. Clint Jeffery, jeffery@cs.utsa.edu
  35.