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From: jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Jason Merrill)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Converting COM to EXE
Message-ID: <8382@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 14 Sep 90 21:51:51 GMT
References: <10446@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <10446@pt.cs.cmu.edu> climan@clamen.avalon.cs.cmu.edu (Dani Climan) writes:
>Is there a utility that will convert COM files to EXE so that they
>can run based on their input files extension.  For example, I would
>like to run a PAGE.COM when I click on a .txt file.  Any suggestions
>would be appreciated.

No need; just rename the file.  DOS (and Windows, I imagine) will properly
determine what sort of program it is and run it properly.  Alternately, get
COMTOEXE.EXE from the LZEXE 0.91 distribution, available at all finer FTP
sites.

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