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debug.exe did not like non-DOS EOL, which caused some problems when copying texts.

If I remembered correctly, debug was only capable of writing 64kB (mono-segment) data? Though one can always create an in-RAM program inside debug to output larger files.

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Yea, I think you could only write a COM file, since they are single segment "memory images". And 64kB was indeed the limit for a memory segment in those days.

Depending on what you were doing, even a ^C character in a script would throw it off, too.

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