Laughing Dog Screen Maker COM file

File Format
Name	Laughing Dog Screen Maker COM file
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics Laughing Dog Screen Maker COM file
Released	1992

Laughing Dog Screen Maker COM file is one of the formats that Laughing Dog Screen Maker (a text mode screen editor for DOS) can save to. See Laughing Dog Screen Maker for more information about the software.

The COM file format is in the form of a DOS COM file which, when executed, displays its contents in a simple viewer.

Discussion

To save to COM file format, start by selecting "Generate Source Code/Export" from the main menu.

Identification

A COM file contains no distinctive strings. The first 28 bytes might always be the same. The first 16 are:

06 b4 0f cd 10 3c 07 74 06 b8 00 b8 eb 04 90 b8

If the screen size is the usual 80x25, the file is exactly 4091 bytes in size.

All known software versions seem to produce identical files.

Software

• Laughing Dog Screen Maker: Refer to Laughing Dog Screen Maker#Software.

Sample files

• GBUILDER.ZIP → *.COM
• MAILRUN.ZIP → *.com
• KISS.ZIP → *.COM