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From: sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: EXE2BIN
Message-ID: <4867@trantor.harris-atd.com>
Date: 14 Nov 90 15:23:19 GMT
References: <45890@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <4855@trantor.harris-atd.com> <1990Nov13.152028.26874@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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In article <1990Nov13.152028.26874@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> wfp5p@euclid.acc.Virginia.EDU (William F. Pemberton) writes:
>In article <4855@trantor.harris-atd.com> sonny@trantor.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis) writes:
	[DELETIONS]
>>	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.
>
>Close to correct, but not quite.  An .EXE that could be converted to .COM
>does not HAVE to be converted to run, it will run just fine.  Such an .EXE
>is any program written with Turbo's (or MS) tiny memory model.  No 
>conversion to .COM is required!!!!
>
	Certainly, I hang my machine when I try to run the .EXE file
	that results from assembling and linking an assembly language
	program destined to be a .COM program (Single segment, no stack
	segment). I have to perform the EXE2BIN before I obtain a functional 
	command.

	Any further discussion on this should be moved to 
	comp.os.msdos.programmer.

Peace,
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