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From: cechew@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Earl Chew)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: DOS -> Minix *.EXE -> a.out
Message-ID: <3120@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU>
Date: 24 Sep 90 00:00:06 GMT
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Organization: Monash Uni. Computer Science, Australia
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In <27242@usc.edu> kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) writes:

>Some thoughts:
>It probably could only handle small model .EXE, because of Minix's
>64k+64k limitation.  In addition, there would have to be something done
>about any BIOS calls.  Such a utility would probably be extremely hard
>to develop, if not impossible.

The utility is called dos2out. I think you might still be able to get it as
part of the mcc or s2asm package. It is used to convert cross compiled
executables to Minix a.out format. It doesn't do any semantic analysis of the
executable -- it basically strips the .exe header and prepends an a.out header.
Thus you won't be able to do things like converting tcc.exe into tcc :-(

Earl
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