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From: ander@pawl.rpi.edu (Michael R. Primm)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: COM files under OS2?
Message-ID: <0G-R2|@rpi.edu>
Date: 9 Dec 89 22:12:05 GMT
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Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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OS/2's "COM" files are just standard "new-EXE" files with the name COM on
the end.  I believe the same is true of several of the standard DOS       
utilities in DOS 3.3 and 4.0 (EXE files disguised as COM files).  I think
the reasons are mostly historical.
                                                    --Mike Primm