Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!kth.se!sunic!chalmers.se!afs-news!trout!dahlstr From: dahlstr@hus.chalmers.se (Gunnar Dahlstrom) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: EXE2BIN in PCDOS 4.0 Message-ID: <1991Mar22.093045.3988@afs-news.utc.chalmers.se> Date: 22 Mar 91 09:30:45 GMT References: <1991Mar15.040327.27580@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Mar20.230005.28573@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@afs-news.utc.chalmers.se (News System) Reply-To: dahlstr@hus.chalmers.se () Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. Lines: 44 In article <1991Mar20.230005.28573@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> rschmidt@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (roy schmidt) writes: >valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty) writes: > >teplovs@zoo.toronto.edu (Chris Teplovs) writes: > > > >>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. > > >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. Why have Microsoft start supporting TINY model (to create .COM program) in C 6.0 if they have a line where they will not support this model?? > >My question is, why would you want to convert a perfectly good .EXE file >to a .COM file? An .EXE file requires far less RAM to run (.COM needs >64K regardless of object code size) so making a small .COM file does not >really make sense anyway. It is verey simpel to write .COM program, you don't have to worry about to use different segments! > >Of course, MS is always immune from their own official line :-). They >still churn out .COM files in their own packages, just like they still >use FCBs for internal DOS commands. Sigh. > // Gunnar =============================================================================== Gunnar Dahlstrom Chalmers University of Technology Div. Building Technology 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden E-Mail: dahlstr@hus.chalmers.se ===============================================================================