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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 13:47:53 GMT
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alleycat wrote:
> 
> I have two questions concerning DJGPP.
> 
> 1. When I installed DJGPP for dos on my PC I noticed a small bug or maybe
> feature that was attached to the executables. I compiled a small program
> and found if I execute it from DOS or the MSDOS prompt(I use Win95), the
> program's name can be typed anywhere on the HD
> (C:\, C:\WINDOWS, C:\DUKE3D, etc.) The compiler also can be executed
> anywhere on the HD. I tried renaming my executable, but no luck.
> Does anybody know why this is happening?


	the directory must be in the PATH environment setting... this is a DOS
	feature, not a DJGPP feature.


> 2. When I compiled a one source program that I created(very small, maybe 20
> lines) using "gcc -o myfile.exe myfile.c", the file compiled fine, but it
> takes a whopping 100K of memory. Just to check if this was normal, I
> compiled the same file using MSVC 1.0, the file size was only 10K.
> Am I doing something wrong when compiling the file, or is this normal?

	Nope, there's a lot of extra stuff needed for 32-bit protected mode 
	programs, you should try   -s   this will cut down the size, but only
	if you don't plan on debugging(after it's compiled and linked).


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