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To: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
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Subject: Re: text's start address? 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 04:25:02 -0800
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>Hmm....
>
>mdos is just a mini loader which loads mdos.mon at a fix address 1000000.
>Now if I jump to location 0x18 wouldn't that start mdos over again??

   I started reading this thread rather late...but a couple of things: the
a.out header is 0x20 bytes large. The entry address is usually to a function
in crt0 (_not_ in main()).
   ...don't know if this helps.

-DG