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From: kimery@wdl1.UUCP (Sam Kimery)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Com vs. Exe files
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Date: Fri, 19-Jul-85 00:46:53 EDT
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> This may sound like a stupid question, but what is the difference(s)
> between .com and .exe files?   All I know is that when I write a 
> turbo pascal program, it is a .com file, and when writing in Lattice
> C it comes out to an .exe file.
> 

As far as I remember, com files are relocatable, and contain no
stack.  Just the oposite holds for .exe files


		Sam