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From: lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de (Alexander Lehmann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP's .exe's are TOO large
Date: 14 Aug 1996 20:56:11 GMT
Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
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Maan M. Hamze <mmhamze AT mail DOT utexas DOT edu> wrote:
: Mr. Eric Domazlicky <DHGW39B AT prodigy DOT com> wrote in article
: <4usslt$j72 AT usenetw1 DOT news DOT prodigy DOT com>...
: > I have a question regarding the size of DJGPP's Executables being so 
: > large: Would it be very hard to put the Stub in a seperate file?  This 
: > way, if you had several .EXEs you were distributing  you could just 
: > decrease file size by just having one Stub instead of one for every 
: > EXE file.  
: > 
: hmmmm..and one more thing to worry about :)

And a big hassle for the end user of your program, since the stubs
have to be added to each file before running it (or you have to run
stub xxx.exe for each). Given that the stub is 2k long and assuming a
cluster size of 8k (512MB to 1GB partition), it will not make the file
any longer in 50% of the files (assuming that exe sizes are uniformly
distributed, maybe that's not correct).


bye, Alexander

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