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Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/02/21:38:46

Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 15:22:36 +1300
From: Andrew McLachlan <MCLACHLA AT tui DOT lincoln DOT ac DOT nz>
Subject: Re: [opendos] A more ordered fixlist
To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Message-id: <13383F741A@tui.lincoln.ac.nz>
Organization: Lincoln University
Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net

On Sun, 02 Feb 1997 "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Feb 1997 jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com wrote:
> > in nethack.  Generally though screen emulators aren't
> > normally found in command.com because it would probably have to be
> > called command.exe before too much longer.
> 
> As far as I can remember, command.com has to be a com file because it's
> resident portion contains EXEC, and that has the exe relocator.
 
Hmmm.  I don't know anything about that, but would mention that 
4DOS.COM is an .exe file with a .com extension.
 
Andrew McLachlan,  PhD student.             <MCLACHLA AT lincoln DOT ac DOT nz>
Dept of Entomology & Animal Ecology, P.O. Box 84, Lincoln University, 
Canterbury, New Zealand.  ph. +64 3 325-2811, fax. +64 3 325-3844.

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