From: mutazilah@gmail.com   
      
   Hi James.   
      
   > Any idea why your reply appears as a new thread?   
      
   Oh, that actually happened, did it? In google   
   groups my posts are appearing in the same thread   
   normally.   
      
   That initially surprised me, but then I thought   
   it was logical for situations where the reply is   
   not to anyone specific.   
      
   Bottom line is that I am using this crude program:   
      
   https://sourceforge.net/p/pdos/gitcode/ci/master/tree/src/pdpnntp.c   
      
   (which I wrote) since google groups became read-only.   
      
   I don't yet know how to construct a reply properly,   
   but even if I did, google groups isn't showing me   
   the raw headers (it used to), so I can't extract   
   the information I need.   
      
   I could get the raw headers via eternal september,   
   but that is more laborious. And I still don't know   
   the rules, regardless. I assume it's a simple matter   
   of getting the message-id from the original message   
   and then constructing some sort of in-reply-to   
   header line? If someone can confirm that, I'll try   
   to do a proper reply for you to confirm.   
      
   >> mingw64 has what is required.   
   >>   
   >> As does UCX64.   
      
   > Well, my development environment is Unix so I am not sure that either   
   > would fit. More importantly, I think that I can already control what   
   > goes in to the finished executable and have tried stripping out the   
   > library code, it's just that there's an unresolved problem with the UEFI   
   > firmware not liking the result.   
      
   Can you not run mingw under Wine to confirm that   
   you get a better result when you use standard   
   Windows calling convention and standard PE   
   executables?   
      
   I don't know if mingw64 can be built as a standard   
   Unix appication, but the tools in UCX64 are all   
   standard C90 applications except for cc64 which uses   
   a little bit of C99 (long long), so you need a compiler   
   with a little bit of C99 support (which you certainly   
   have), and then you can build native Linux tools that   
   produce proper PE executables instead of ELF-kludged.   
      
   And Wolfgang is probably using Windows so would probably   
   be better off going a route that doesn't involve the   
   Linux kludge.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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