Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!quiche!gerardis From: gerardis@cs.mcgill.ca (Tony GERARDIS) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: EXE2BIN in PCDOS 4.0 Message-ID: <1991Mar21.055841.10037@cs.mcgill.ca> Date: 21 Mar 91 05:58:41 GMT References: <1991Mar20.230005.28573@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <5479@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Sender: news@cs.mcgill.ca (Netnews Administrator) Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 29 In article <5479@vela.acs.oakland.edu> w8sdz@rigel.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen) writes: >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 Ya and how would you explain the fact that EXE2BIN comes on Disk 3 of MSDOS 5.0. (Yes I already have a copy of the RELEASE CANDIDATE #3) Works like a charm and EXE2BIN is also supplied. PROBLEM SOLVED - MICROSOFT Still SHIPS EXE2BIN.EXE with MSDOS!!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------ gerardis@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca | The sun is the same in a relative way, | but you're older | And shorter of breath and one day | closer to DEATH. -Floyd