Subj : Self-modifying code
To : Eddy Thilleman
From : Murray Lesser
Date : Sat Jan 20 2001 04:00 pm
(Excerpts from a message from Eddy Thilleman to Murray Lesser)
Hello Eddy--
ET>Tuesday 16 January 2001 00:00, Murray Lesser wrote to Darin McBride:
ML> My shortest such utility has a file length of 44 bytes and isn't
ML> "self-modifying."
ET>Is this a contest of the shortest and smallest .COM file?? ;-)
No. It is merely an example. It is a very trivial example, as all
it does is set the left margin on my IBM Quickwriter dot-matrix printer.
A more useful assembled routine is David Noon's TELLBOOT.DLL (file size:
619 bytes) used with "classic" REXX programs to return the boot drive
partition letter a REXX program.
