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From: valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: EXE2BIN in PCDOS 4.0
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Date: 15 Mar 91 16:02:44 GMT
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teplovs@zoo.toronto.edu (Chris Teplovs) writes:


>I recently created an EXE file on a system running MSDOS 4.01, and had
>no trouble converting it to a .COM file using EXE2BIN.
>When I recompiled the source code to an .EXE file on a system running
>PCDOS 4.0, I couldn't find EXE2BIN (it doesn't seem to exist on the
>original floppies!).  Anyone know if this is an isolated incident,
>or is this a problem with PCDOS 4.0?

IBM decided a long time ago that ordinary users didn't need EXE2BIN and
hence that they could afford to charge extra for it.

Get EXE2COM by CJ Dunford, available on most boards and FTP sites.