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From: smvorkoetter@watmum.waterloo.edu (Stefan M. Vorkoetter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: EXE And COM files
Message-ID: <7386@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 19 Dec 88 13:57:12 GMT
References: <596@nikhefh.hep.nl> <250@shockeye.UUCP> <6078@hoptoad.uucp>
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In article <6078@hoptoad.uucp> pozar@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Pozar) writes:
->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

Well, they are loaded at an offset of 100h in the code segment, but they
start at an offset of zero in the FILE.  And the entry point is right at
the beginning.

Stefan Vorkoetter
(smvorkoetter@watmum)