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From: toma@tekgvs.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Pkarc 3.6 bug?
Keywords: pkware pkarc bugs
Message-ID: <3586@tekgvs.TEK.COM>
Date: 16 Jun 88 14:08:57 GMT
References: <298@unocss.UUCP> <301@sdrc.UUCP> <148@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.UUCP (Tom Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <148@psuhcx.psu.edu> wcf@psuhcx (Bill Fenner) writes:
>The thing that really bugs me is that all the utilities that use ARC (ALL the
>FidoNet utilities) expect PKXARC.COM or PKARC.COM, not .EXE! AAAAAARGH!
>Is there any way to have a short .COM program that just runs the .EXE?

The easiest solution is "ren pk*.exe pk*.com".  MS/DOS does not care if the
extension is EXE or COM, it looks at the first byte to decide the executable
format.

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.TEK.COM