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From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Where is EXE2BIN in PC-DOS 3.3 ?
Message-ID: <18745@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 16 Jan 88 04:38:35 GMT
References: <612@wolf.UUCP> <16800180@clio> <102@ritcv.UUCP>
Reply-To: madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: Boston University Distributed Systems Group
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In article <102@ritcv.UUCP> kfk9673@ritcv.UUCP (Karl Kingston) writes:
>In article <16800180@clio> berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu writes:
>>For a long time, exe2bin was distributed on non-IBM versions of DOS, but
>>not with the real PC-DOS.  Maybe IBM included it with 3.1 and 3.2 as an
>>oversight, and have now corrected it.
>>
>>			Mike Berger
>
>EXE2BIN *HAS* been distributed with the IBM versions of PC-DOS since
>DOS 2.0.

Not so.  The newer versions (I think everything after 3.10 but
definitely in 3.30) include it with the DOS Technical Reference
Manual.  The 3.30 manual comes with both 3" and 5.25" diskettes, too.

What is the price to get this neat utility?  Oh, about $100.  Cheap at
any price.  Actually, the book is real useful but not that well laid
out.  IBM nicely sent updates for each new version of DOS after we
bought the manual.  3.30 came with a notice that said we weren't going
to get anymore.  Since we already had 3 of them, and most of the newer
things aren't really usable anyway since most people don't have 3.30,
it was nice to save my friends $100 by giving them the old ones.

Happy hacking.

jim frost
madd@bu-it.bu.edu