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Scott wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:30:33 +0000 (UTC), Rod Pemberton
> <donthave AT noreply DOT bit> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>From CWSDPMI.DOC: "CWSDSTUB.EXE is a stub loader image for DJGPP
>>
>>And, you can save 6k by using PMODSTUB.EXE instead.
>>
>>
>>>You can use the EXE2COFF program and COPY /B
>>
>>CWSDSTUB.EXE+yourimage
>>
>>And, it doesn't work with XCOPY.  I tried... :(
> 
> 
> Wrong tool for the job.  But these days I'd type 'cat' long before I thought
> about 'copy /b'.
> 

But cat reads text files, right? It would throw away 0x0D and stop at 
0x1A wouldn't it? Not on Unix of course, but this is djgpp.

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Joe Wright
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
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