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From: timur@seas.gwu.edu (The Time Traveler)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: EXE2BIN
Message-ID: <2342@sparko.gwu.edu>
Date: 13 Nov 90 06:45:30 GMT
References: <45890@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
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Organization: The George Washington University, Washington D.C.
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In article <45890@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v067qklp@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>Hi.  I wrote a utility in Shareware First Modula-2 Compiler to capture the 
>screen and either dump it to a file or retrieve from the file a saved screen 
>and then redraw the screen.  However, I'd like to convert this EXE to a binary 
>file which I could keep loaded while in DBASE-III+.
>
>EXE2BIN always seems to return the message "Can't convert file."  Does anyone 
>know what EXE2BIN is looking for?

EXE2BIN can only be used on .EXE files which were meant to be .COM.  
Typically, this only applies to assembly programs which follow strict
memory-model rules (the tiny model).

TT

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