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- --------E-COM-------------------------------
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- The COM files are raw binary executables and are a leftover from the old
- CP/M machines with 64K RAM. A COM program can only have a size of less
- than one segment (64K), including code and static data since no fixups
- for segment relocation or anything else is included. One method to check
- for a COM file is to check if the first byte in the file could be a
- valid jump or call opcode, but this is a very weak test since a COM file
- is not required to start with a jump or a call. In principle, a COM file
- is just loaded at offset 100h in the segment and then executed.
-
- OFFSET Count TYPE Description
- 0000h 1 byte ID=0E9h
- ID=0EBh
- Those are not safe ways to determine wether a file is a COM file or not,
- but most COM files start with a jump.
-
- Further information not available.
- EXTENSION:COM
- OCCURENCES:PC
- SEE ALSO:EXE,MZ EXE,NE EXE
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