Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/06/11/04:46:33
On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, A.Appleyard wrote:
> > If that hurts, you should compress your .EXE files. Get DJP (the
> > DJGPP-specific exe compressor) and run it on all your programs. ...
>
> Having to uncompress each program as I need it would be a pain in the neck.
You don't have to uncompress them. DJP does this automatically and
transparently. You just run the program as usual.
> would it involve to give djgpp an option to tell it to compile a program to
> run in real-mode? to save the user from having to clutter his computer with a
> second compiler for stray needs to compile small real-mode programs.
The smallest program you can produce with DJGPP v2 is 16KBytes (without
compressing with DJGP). Is that too large? Nowadays, most disks have
this as their cluster size, so you cannot have any file that takes up
less.
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