Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!scs!spl1!laidbak!att!pacbell!lll-tis!oodis01!uplherc!sp7040!obie!wsccs!rargyle 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> Distribution: na Lines: 22 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