Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decvax!sunybcs!ugthomas From: ugthomas@sunybcs.UUCP ( Timothy Thomas) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Com vs. Exe files Message-ID: <1932@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 00:07:40 EDT Article-I.D.: sunybcs.1932 Posted: Tue Jul 16 00:07:40 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 20:23:52 EDT Distribution: net Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 20 This may sound like a stupid question, but what is the difference(s) between .com and .exe files? All I know is that when I write a turbo pascal program, it is a .com file, and when writing in Lattice C it comes out to an .exe file. Could someone please explain to me the difference (and advantages/disad) of these two types of files? Thanx, -- ____________ ____/--\____ \______ ___) ( _ ____) "Damn it Jim!, __| |____/ / `--' I'm a programmer not a Doctor!" ) `|=(- \------------' Timothy D. Thomas SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science UUCP: [decvax,dual,rocksanne,watmath,rocksvax]!sunybcs!ugthomas CSnet: ugthomas@buffalo, ARPAnet: ugthomas%buffalo@CSNET-RELAY