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{{FormatInfo
|formattype=electronic
|subcat=Executable envelopes
|extensions={{ext|com}}
|released=≤1995
}}
'''EXE2COM''', by PSP Soft and Paul Shpilsher, is a DOS utility that converts an [[MS-DOS EXE|EXE]] file to [[DOS executable (.com)|COM]] format.

It supports most EXE files that are sufficiently small, and that don't have an overlay.

== Disambiguation ==
This is not the only utility named ''EXE2COM'', but most of the others don't have a distinct file format.

For example, there's '''exe2com''' by Chris Dunford and Cove Software: [{{CdTextfilesURL|psl/pslv2nv12/PRGMMING/DOS/TOOLS2/EXE2COM.ZIP}}].

== Identification ==
(Based on v2.00, which might be the only version.)

Files start with byte <code>0xe9</code>, and have ASCII "{{magic|EXE2COM 200}}" at offset 3.

Note: The EXE2COM.COM file itself has this signature, though it does not seem to conform to EXE2COM format.

A more precise test would be that the byte sequence {{magic|e8 00 00 5b 81 eb 1d 00 8d b7 00 00 bf 00 01 b9 07 00 f3 a5}}... appears at offset {3 + {the 2-byte integer at offset 1}}.

== Software ==
* [{{SACFTPURL|utilprog|ex2cm200.zip}} EXE2COM v2.00]

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 '''EXE2COM''', by PSP Soft and Paul Shpilsher, is a DOS utility that converts an [[MS-DOS EXE|EXE]] file to [[DOS executable (.com)|COM]] format.
 It supports most EXE files that are sufficiently small, and that don't have an overlay.
 == Identification ==

EXE2COM (PSP Soft) - Revision history

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