exe2bin

[1][2] Early compilers and linkers for the MS-DOS platform could not produce a COM file executable directly.

[3] exe2bin could also be used to convert compiled code to make it suitable to be embedded in ROM as part of BIOS or a device driver.

"Instead, IBM sells the program separately, at an extra cost, with the DOS Technical Reference."

[6] The program was also distributed with many language compilers for MS-DOS in the 1980s, and included with certain versions of IBM PC DOS.

PhysTechSoft & Paragon Technology Systems PTS-DOS,[7] Digital Research DR DOS 6.0,[8] and Datalight ROM-DOS,[9] also include an implementation of the exe2bin command.