On 07/02/2016 10:29 AM, Eric Christopherson wrote: > Genius. But I would have thought CP/M would at least require a .com > file to have a header. > > http://peetm.com/blog/?p=55
Of course, this only works when the program doesn't clobber its own initialization code (to reclaim memory), which a lot of programs did in those memory-limited days. Regardless, neither CP/M-80 nor MSDOS requires that a .COM file have any particular structure--even MSDOS will try to run a zero-length .com file without complaint. --Chuck
