Have you taken a look at it with a hex editor? It might actually be an exe file. If I remember correctly DOS allowed you to load executable with both exe and com extendions and actually decided how to load it by the existence or absence of an MZ header.
On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 at 17:51, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Also I thought .COM file had to be small model (code+data inside 64k)... > Why command.com can be larger than 64k? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
