Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!iuvax!bobmon
From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Converting .EXE to .COM
Message-ID: <16532@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 17 Jan 89 04:48:36 GMT
Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
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bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright), in <1827@dataio.Data-IO.COM>:
	[ much good information, including... ]
-
-[.EXE files]
-	6. DS and ES are set to the PSP segment.
-
-[.COM files]
-	6. ES,DS,SS,CS are all set to the segment of the PSP, IP is
-	   set to 100h, and execution starts.
-
-For further reference see the MS-DOS Tech Ref. It's also interesting
-if you can obtain source code for a program loader.

Are the points 6, above, guaranteed, then?  Does this Tech. Ref. talk
about stuff like that?  Where can those of us who don't talk to IBM find
such things?
--
"Intel architectures build character."  "Segments are for worms."  "Feh."