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From: pozar@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Pozar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: EXE And COM files
Message-ID: <6078@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 18 Dec 88 17:56:25 GMT
References: <596@nikhefh.hep.nl> <250@shockeye.UUCP>
Reply-To: pozar@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Pozar)
Organization: Syncstream/Widget Systems (San Francisco)
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In article <250@shockeye.UUCP> hermit@shockeye.UUCP (Mark Buda) writes:
>I'm not sure if I know what I'm talking about, but a COM file doesn't have
>a format. It is just an image of the program, whose entry point must be at
>an offset of zero.

   Not quite.  .COM programmes start at an offset of 100h.
		  Tim

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