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From: richard@murna.asis.unimelb.edu.au (Richard Begg)
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Subject: Re: Need technical explanation of why .COM/.EXE being binary/Hex
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Date: 15 Mar 91 00:31:05 GMT
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v087mxgb@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu (Shawn E Thompson) writes:
>Hi,

>could someone please explain to me why .COM files are
>binary and why .EXE files are hex....and why they both
>work (ie...is the Hex EXE files translated on the fly into 
>biinary???)

[stuff deleted]

>thanks in advance

>st

Er... Um... correct me if I am wrong here, but aren't binary and hex (or
even decimal for that matter) just different means of displaying a given
number.  It all depends on how you choose to look at the data.

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Richard.

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