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From: darrylo@hpsrlc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Where is EXE2BIN in PC-DOS 3.3 ?
Message-ID: <3320071@hpsrlc.HP.COM>
Date: 16 Jan 88 22:02:13 GMT
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Posted: Sat Jan 16 17:02:13 1988

In comp.sys.ibm.pc, madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost) writes:

> 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
     [ ... ]
> Happy hacking.
> 
> jim frost
> madd@bu-it.bu.edu

     There are at least two PD/shareware replacements for exe2bin.  One was
distributed (written?) by PC Mag., and the other is written by Chris
Dunford, author of a number of useful utilities.  I have a copy of Chris
Dunford's program, exe2com, if anyone would like a copy (please note that I
haven't tested my copy, although I've heard good things about it).

     -- Darryl Okahata
	{hplabs!hpccc!, hpfcla!} hpsrla!darrylo
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Disclaimer: the above is the author's personal opinion and is not the
opinion or policy of his employer or of the little green men that
have been following him all day.