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From: rargyle@wsccs.UUCP (Bob Argyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MSC coded replacement for COMMAND.COM
Message-ID: <559@wsccs.UUCP>
Date: 28 May 88 21:28:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: wsccs.559
References: <1284@adec23.UUCP>
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Summary: You need command.com to load .EXE files If your compiler produces .COM files, they will load

In article <1284@adec23.UUCP>, mark@adec23.UUCP (Mark Salyzyn) writes:
[sample of C code deleted]
> I want to replace command.com with my own simple menu driver to save floppy
> disk space for a turnkey application. I assume some initialization that my
> MSC compiler (version 3.0 here) is not getting performed and some runtime
> library routine is STOPPED UP, and/or some vector must be trapped? Am i missing
> something (of course I am). I assume that if it is a runtime routine, 4.0 and
> up probably have solved the problem?
...
> Thanks in advance, post if small, mail if long.
> 
> -- Stamp out long .sigs
> alberta!{teletron,uofaee}!adec23!mark Mark Salyzyn

If your compiler produces .COM files by default, it is probably broken.
Find out if you can get you compiler to give a .COM (or .ASM to turn
into .COM [shudder] via changing the asseembly and EXE2BINing it.

Least mindboggling is to write a short program that will just load your .EXE
file for you and have THAT.COM be your 'interpreter'.

Bob @ WSCCS