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From: valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty)
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Subject: Re: Help with disassembling to a file.
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Date: 12 Mar 91 14:06:06 GMT
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rbennet1@gara.une.oz.au (Robert Bennetts) writes:


>   I am trying to find a way to disassemble some .exe files I have so that I
>can reassemble them with microsoft assembler (masm).I would then hopefully
>be able to convert them from .exe files to .com files using exe2bin.There are
>two reasons I would like to do this.The first is that com files are smaller 
>than the equivalent exe files,and I would like to conserve space.The second
>is that I am hoping that the com files will run faster than the original exe
>file.

This is tricky business.  Which disassembler are you using?  (You
mention DEBUG; if that's all you've got, you're looking at some tough
sledding!)  I've been using SR from V communications; it's pretty good.

If your only goal is to save space, just use LZEZE; in fact that package
includes a COMTOEXE program that you run on your .COM files before
running them through LZEXE.  Incidentally, I renamed COMTOEXE to COM2EXE
on my disk to make it more symmetric to EXE2BIN & EXE2COM...