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If all 8086 segments were set to be identical in such an EXE file (i.e. the "tiny" memory model was used), then exe2bin could convert it to a COM file. [ 3 ] exe2bin could also be used to convert compiled code to make it suitable to be embedded in ROM as part of BIOS or a device driver .
BATCH ENHANCER (or BE) (or BE.EXE,) is an applet or free-standing utility packaged with Norton Utilities (NU) to graphically enhance the presentation of batch files.Batch Enhancer allows the use of colours, square graphics, delays, beeps, more complex decision parameters, easier to create user-choice menus and other functions.
Microsoft released a version of cmd.exe for Windows 9x and ME called WIN95CMD to allow users of older versions of Windows to use certain cmd.exe-style batch files. As of Windows 8, cmd.exe is the normal command interpreter for batch files; the older COMMAND.COM can be run as well in 32-bit versions of Windows able to run 16-bit programs.
.EXE: Yes by file Yes Yes Yes [5] Yes Yes No Only MZ (DOS) [6] Yes PE32+ Windows (64-bit editions only).EXE: Yes by file Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes "Compiled Hybrid Portable Executable" Yes Mach-O [7] NeXTSTEP, macOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS: none Yes by section Some (limited to max. 256 sections) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No OS/360
The "10 Useful Batch Commands, B.Arthur" link is slightly broken. == Confusing "SET" command description batch file The following sentence under the "Uses" heading is very confusing. "They are mainly used to use the "set" command, which sets a string to another, during the time the batch file is being processed." Possibly the author meant:
Software distributors use executable compression for a variety of reasons, primarily to reduce the secondary storage requirements of their software; as executable compressors are specifically designed to compress executable code, they often achieve better compression ratio than standard data compression facilities such as gzip, zip or bzip2 [citation needed].
The command was first introduced as an external command (with filenames CHOICE.COM or CHOICE.EXE) with MS-DOS 6.0. [2] It is included in Novell DOS 7 and IBM PC DOS 7.0, and is also available from the command-line shell of some versions of Microsoft Windows, but not under Windows 2000 and Windows XP. [3]
convert is an external command first introduced with Windows 2000. [2] If the drive cannot be locked (for example, the drive is the system volume or the current drive) the command gives the option to convert the drive the next time the computer is restarted.