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From: sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: EXE2BIN
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Date: 13 Nov 90 14:25:31 GMT
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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?
>
	One cannot convert an arbitrary .EXE file to a .COM file. A .EXE
file which is convertible to .COM by EXE2BIN will have been compiled with
a common code and data segment and no stack segment. Further, such a
 .EXE file is not even executable WITHOUT conversion to .COM by EXE2BIN.
	You evidently have a bonafide executable .EXE file -- one that
CANNOT be converted.

	YOU CAN'T CONVERT AN ARBITRARY .EXE FILE TO A .COM FILE.

	Best,
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