Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 09:28:35 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Using AS (GAS) to produce COM files - is it possible?
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> From: "Fairbairn Family" <lgcl01 AT es DOT co DOT nz>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 14:31:56 +1300
> 
> I use AS as an assembler for Linux, and I am now creating a port of my
> program to DOS and need to assemble some asm code into a MSDOS Com file. All
> I can figure out is how to output into coff/a.out formats.

The DJGPP port of Gas and ld do not support .com format.  You might be
able to do something with the bin format, but I'm not sure.

Why do you need a .com program?  Won't a .exe program do what you want?