BAT2EXEC

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Name BAT2EXEC
Ontology
Released 1990

BAT2EXEC is a DOS utility that converts a Batch file to a COM file that (hopefully) works the same. It was developed by Ziff Communications and Douglas Boling.

It was originally released via an article in the August 1990 issue of PC Magazine.

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More research is needed regarding version 1.0. There are probably at least two versions of it, with one named "BAT2COM" instead of "BAT2EXEC".

Identification

Files compiled by v1.2-1.3 start with bytes assembled from the "INIT CODE" section of the source code, observed to be these 32 bytes:

fc bd 20 01 8b 6e 00 8b a6 02 00 8b 9e 04 00 b4
4a cd 21 a1 2c 00 89 86 1a 00 8b 9e 00 00 ff e3

Files compiled by v1.5 have an ASCII signature at offset 3: "Compiled by BAT2EXEC 1.5".

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