Date:	Wed, 30 Dec 92 22:15:19 EST
From:	peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Packing go32 into an .exe

>>copy /b stub.exe+prog prog.exe
>>...
>>copy /b go32.exe+prog prog.exe 
>>...
>>The latter method requires royalties to be paid when you sell the
>>.exe to someone else.

Does this mean that if I were to use djgpp in a commercial product, I would
have the options of
   1. Use copy/b or equivalent to combine the files and pay royalties
or 2. Have my customer do this operation as part of the installation and
      not pay royalties?
Does this make sense?

(I haven't done anything with djgpp since around version 1.04.  At that time,
djgpp gave me a 4x performance boost in a time-consuming sort, but did not
support some DOS interrupts which I need to use and did not allow recovery
when a memory allocation failed because the swap disk was full.  My
understanding from messages on this list is that the later is still true, and
it just isn't acceptable in commercial software.)

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