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- From: u734120@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (John Lamp)
- Subject: Re: Dos Emulator Question
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- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 04:50:12 GMT
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- rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar) writes:
-
- >I've read in the DOS emulator docs that it won't run *.EXE files, but that
- >it will run *.COM files... so could EXE2BIN be used to make the conversion?
- >or will this not work with some *.EXE's?
-
- EXE2BIN will only work with a very limited range of *.exe files. *.com
- files are a hangover from CP/M days of 64K memory models. You can write
- them small because so much is assumed, so they are still quite popular for
- quick and dirty (and in some cases clean) utilities.
-
- Cheers
- John
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