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From: 37KGLLQ@CMUVM.BITNET (Tony Papadimitriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: .com and .exe files
Message-ID: <90309.01004837KGLLQ@CMUVM.BITNET>
Date: 5 Nov 90 06:00:48 GMT
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Joe Fischer writes:
>An EXE file is usually quite a bit larger than a .COM file that does
>the same thing, especially if the program is written to load fast and
>run fast, and nothing can run as fast as a straight forward .COM file.
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Execution speed is irrelevant to the program's type (.COM or .EXE).

> . . .                               While .COM files can be produced
>in a number of different ways, an EXE file can only be produced by a
>compiler.                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

.EXE programs can be produced in as many ways as .COM programs.  If
certain compilers happen to not support either .COM or .EXE files
that does not mean only a compiler can produce .EXE files.