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From: lair@ellis.uchicago.edu (Scott A. Laird)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: EXE2BIN in PCDOS 4.0
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.000601.5114@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 22 Mar 91 00:06:01 GMT
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In article <1991Mar21.055841.10037@cs.mcgill.ca> gerardis@cs.mcgill.ca (Tony GERARDIS) writes:
>In article <5479@vela.acs.oakland.edu> w8sdz@rigel.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen) writes:
>>
>>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!!!!
>
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Actually, EXE2BIN.EXE is included on my MS-DOS 4.01 distribution disks.  I know
that _IBM_ stopped shipping EXE2BIN, but if Microsoft did, it was only for a
limited time.  I had thought that they had stopped, too, but when I looked
several months ago, it was there.  I also checked on some PC-DOS 4.0 floppies,
and sure enough, no EXE2BIN.

So Microsoft will still let us convert .EXE's to .COM's in DOS 4.  Now if they
would have just given us the memory to do anything else...  I really hate
having to use drive J:, thought, so 3.3 isn't perfect, either.  When's my
copy of DOS 5.0 going to start shipping?



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