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Top Document: comp.os.msdos.programmer FAQ part 2/5 Previous Document: Next Document: See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge There are two steps to creating a .COM file. First, your program must not have a stack. In C, you must compile your program with the TINY memory model. Second, use EXE2BIN or a similar program to convert an EXE file to a COM file. To find EXE2BIN see subject: <Q:03.10> [Where is EXE2BIN located?] User Contributions: 1 Ben in Seattle ⚠ Jun 2, 2026 @ 4:16 pm Another solution is to use a parallel port loopback plug. It makes the PC think there is a printer attached. The benefit of this is it doesn't require anticipating the problem with ANSI.SYS escape sequences nor does it make you wait half an hour for the "Abort, Retry, Ignore?" prompt, as some versions of DOS do. Comment about this article, ask questions, or add new information about this topic:Top Document: comp.os.msdos.programmer FAQ part 2/5 Previous Document: Next Document: Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Part5 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: jeffrey@carlyle.org (Jeffrey Carlyle)
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