FL2COM
From Just Solve the File Format Problem
FL2COM (derived from "Files to COM format") is a utility and toolkit that converts a text file to a DOS COM file that, when executed, displays the text in a viewer. It was developed by Charles White.
According to the documentation, it was originally named "TXT2COM" (see also the TXT2COM disambiguation page).
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Discussion
FL2COM seems to be the most authoritative name, but FLCOM is also used.
Only the presumably-final version, 60M, has been found. It's unclear how many other versions there were. Version 60M's documentation mentions versions 50B and 60L, "FL2COM45", and TXT2COM 1.0/1.5.
Identification
Based on minimal information, generated files start with byte 0xe9 or 0xeb. At offset 3 is an ASCII string that starts "FL2COM".
Software
- FL2COM version 60M (1998 release of software that seems to be from 1992-1993)
Sample files
- flcom60m.zip → FLCOM60.EXE (LHA SFX) → 60M-DOC.COM
- USP40.ARJ → *.COM (made by a version of FL2COM from around 1990)
- dexvert samples — document/fl2com
