(from Clarence Verge):
>Com programs in MSDOS are basically the same as .com programs in CP/M.
>They have a 64k size limit (actually 64k -256bytes -2 bytes) and they
>at least START with all code, data and stack in the same segment, and
>they begin executing right at the first byte - all exactly like CP/M.
>
>The .exes can be pretty much any length - I don't really know if there is
>a limit because I'm not into FATware. But that is not the only difference.
I've seen .COM programs exceed the limit, and wondered how they did it.
OS/2 Warp 4 FORMAT.COM has 69920 bytes, and FDISK.COM has 113658 bytes.
DR-DOS 7.03 COMMAND.COM has 66785 bytes.
Maybe these are really .EXE files misnamed? I just checked, and they all begin
with MZ.
How long is COMMAND.COM in Win 95 & 98? Or does it have a different name?
Some people who sell computers don't even know!
To L.D. Best on smiley faces:
Smiley faces are ASCII 1 & 2. CR is ASCII 13. LF is ASCII 10.
When I was using Ultimail Lite with OS/2 Warp 4, one message I received showed
an ASCII 2 character, but only some of the time. I never solved that mystery.
