Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/02/14/15:03:11
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Gautier wrote:
> *But* for command.com and edit.com, they are no EXEs
That's not true: both command.com and edit.com which come with Windows
are actually EXE programs. Look at the first two bytes, and you will
see the telltale "MZ" signature.
> and seem too small
> to contain 2 programs in one (the DOS and the Win32 console app) -
As far as I could see they are compressed, so there's no easy way to
judge their size.
I don't say that I know for a fact that these are Windows console
applications. I just don't know that they aren't.
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