On 7/22/2010 14:42, Reimar Grabowski wrote:
Disclaimer: I am not a Windows guy and don't know what a exe is, means or does. :)
in the DOS/Win world, the extension traditionally denotes what the file can do... .exe and .com are executables... .com files are basically memory snaps and are/were some of the easiest to create... nowadays, everything is .exe because it must be loadable into certain areas of memory... i don't know of anyone that is creating .com files any more unless they are in a pure traditional DOS type environment...
there's a lot more to this story but this isn't the place for it and i'd have to really dig for more meaty info if it were desired ;)
FWIW: i used to create .com files via debug and certain special scripts all the time... one of the easiest was a reboot mechanism of only a couple of bytes... 4 bytes, IIRC... maybe 6... two separate ones for each type of booting desired on intel-oriented systems... one for a warm boot (no memory count and such) and the other for cold boot (complete initialization)...
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