I have been searching the net for awile and have not found anything that changes bat files into exe's without creating a tempory batch file with all the original code in. I have seen bat2com files that do it without any tempory files but not exe's. Does anyone know where i can find one?

Sorry about not providing a clickable link, just copy and paste: http://computerhope.org/download/utility/bat2exe.com

That changes them to .com files not .exe . Thanks anyway!

Huh?

.com files and .exe are identical. Here's what you do. After you use bat2com to make the batch file into a .com file, just rename it to whatever.exe . *Poof* It's an exe file. Wasn't that easy. No really, to DOS there is no difference between EXE and COM files. They are used by us users to differentiate between external COMmand files and Applications. Sometimes they are used incorrectly. Take edit.com for instance. It is not a command, but MS named it one anyway, go figure. -Michael

Thanks

I think I have seen a COM2EXE command somewhere. I hate to inject hearsay into this--but I am obviously going to. I have heard that a COM file cannot be over 65,000 bytes long. I have heard that all the .cmd programs Microsoft bought from Data Research became .COM files and I have heard that DOS looks through the whole directory or path for com files to run before it runs the first exe candidate. Except for these hearsay things that somebody can clear up maybe, I do not think there is any difference in them either.