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From: "Curtis, Craig M." <cmc2648 AT LXE DOT com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: "'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: Program too big to fit in memory
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 09:08:40 -0500
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>On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Curtis, Craig M. wrote:
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>> I have compiled the latest version of Python (v1.5) with djgpp(v2.01) on
>> a win95 p133.  When I try to execute it, I get:  "Program too big to
>> fit in memory" while running in a DOS Box in Win95.
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>One possible reason for this would be that you clicked on the file
>`python' in the file manager.  If so, click on `python.exe' instead.
>DOS and Windows don't know how to run the raw COFF image, so they
>fail.
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>If the above doesn't help, I'd guess that your program doesn't have
>the DJGPP stub prepended to it.  Without the stub, the program lacks
>the DOS exe header, and DOS doesn't know how to run it (it boldly
>tries anyway, and you get the error message).


This was the problem.  I ran stubify on Python and it fixed it.

Thanks,
Craig Curtis
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