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   SuperIlu (dec_hl@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Nov-2025 13:37:28 JST SuperIlu

   A question in a Discord drove me down the rabbit hole of MS-DOS TXT2COM and TXT2EXE utilities. 😋

   Nice selection here:
   http://annex.retroarchive.org/cdrom/psl-v2n10//UTILS/DOS/FILEVIEW/index.html

   #MSDOS #RetroComputing

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     The FreeDOS Project (freedosproject@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Nov-2025 13:37:28 JST The FreeDOS Project

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     @dec_hl Back in the days of Usenet, there were also programs that went the other way: converts a compiled exe so it can be transmitted in plain text, and still run. I recall that the unzoo program was distributed this way. 🤓

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