From: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com>
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Subject: Re: .COM's with DJGPP?
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 13:46:07 -0500
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Isaac Waldron wrote:
> 
> Weiqi Gao wrote:
> >
> > rename prog.exe prog.com
> 
> I don't believe that simply renaming prog.exe to prog.com will give the
> intended result.

I wonder what the intended result is... a situation where a .COM is
required while an .EXE will not suffice?

> In fact, it will probably hang the machine when run!

It probably will not hang the machine when run!  Who knows about such
details?  We may never find out.

> DOS .com files are a special breed of executable that that must be under
> a certain size (I don't know what it is) and contains direct Intel
> machine codes.  COM files can be written with either NASM (the Netwide
> Assembler, available free at www.cryogen.com/nasm) or the DEBUG program
> that comes with DOS.
                       or vi, with the help of the Alt-Numbers keys.
>  I don't believe that DJGPP can output this type of
> executable.

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