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From: gerardis@cs.mcgill.ca (Tony GERARDIS)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: EXE2BIN in PCDOS 4.0
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.234836.25186@cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 22 Mar 91 23:48:36 GMT
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In article <1991Mar22.000601.5114@midway.uchicago.edu> lair@ellis.uchicago.edu (Scott A. Laird) writes:
>>
>>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!!!!
>>
>
>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?
>
Well It was scheduled for this or next month but hey this is Microsoft
we are talking about.  Windows 3.0 was released about a year after
schedule and 3.1 was also scheduled for next month (ya right!).
Well All I can tell you is that hopefully it'll be released by the
summer! Trust Me it will be worth every penny Microsoft asks for it!
I'm using the 'MSDOS 5.00 RELEASE CANDIDATE #3' and it works
beautifully. It is quite stable, and after all my device drivers are
loaded( ie. smartdrive, ramdrive, mouse driver, himem.sys, etc) I still
have 595k free! Now who needs QEMM with results like that from DOS!
It's about time!

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