Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!umich!vela!rigel.acs.oakland.edu!w8sdz From: w8sdz@rigel.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: EXE2BIN in PCDOS 4.0 Message-ID: <5479@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Date: 21 Mar 91 05:12:20 GMT References: <1991Mar15.040327.27580@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Mar20.230005.28573@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@vela.acs.oakland.edu Organization: Detroit Download Central Lines: 18 rschmidt@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (roy schmidt) writes: >Actually, what you are seeing is the official Microsoft line. Microsoft >has decided that we should not write .COM programs anymore, and >therefore don't support/condone them. A sure way to decrease the number >of .COM files is by not giving you the utility to manufacture them. How do you explain the fact that EXE2BIN comes with MASM, then? I think the reason it's no longer shipped with MS-DOS is because there are no programs supplied which create EXE files which need to be converted to COM files. Keith -- Keith Petersen Co-SysOp, Detroit Download Central 313-885-3956 (212/V22bis/HST/V32/V42bis) Internet: w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu, w8sdz@eddie.mit.edu, w8sdz@brl.mil Uucp: uunet!umich!vela!w8sdz BITNET: w8sdz@OAKLAND