Wine lecture slides

Marcelo Duarte wine-devel at bol.com.br
Mon Sep 22 00:28:07 CDT 2003


From: "Ove Kaaven" <ovehk at ping.uio.no>
To: "Eric Pouech" <pouech-eric at wanadoo.fr>
Cc: "Shachar Shemesh" <wine-devel at shemesh.biz>; "Marcelo Duarte"
<wine-devel at bol.com.br>; "Wine Devel" <wine-devel at winehq.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: Wine lecture slides


> søn, 21.09.2003 kl. 08.46 skrev Eric Pouech:
> > > MZ are the first two bytes of the file, identifying it as an
executable.
> > > I'm not aware that they mean anything at all.
> > IIRC, they were the initial of the author(s) of the file format
>
> Mark Zbikowski. But that's just a theory, I haven't heard about anybody
> really knowing for sure what it stands for, I think (many books mention
> this theory, but never like it was a fact).

I also read this theory in a book, and perhaps either exactly this name. I
find that he was in the book "The MSDOS Bible" of Ray Duncan.




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