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DOS Executable File

Quick Info

COM files are the most simple executables you can think of: They contain plain executable code, which is just loaded into memory (at position xxxx:0100) and run. MS-DOS is the only operating system which supports these COM files, but most systems are nowadays able to emulate DOS, so you should be able to run these programs there, too.

Quick Info:

Name: DOS Executable File
Type: Executable
Extension: COM
Specification: None
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