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Subject: .EXE Size
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  I know this sort of question is asked alot, and I have read the FAQ.
But the file sizes mentioned in the FAQ are small compared to what I'm
getting.

  Using Allegro, most of my programs range between 700 and 900k.
I recently wrote a simple tile mapping program, the source only 
5,162 in size, and it compiled to 4,271,616 bytes, with the -s option.
I've included allegro.h and math.h, and the code is fairly optimized.

  DJP drops it to less then 200k. What I'm wondering is, should the
EXE be that big (before DJP)? I know DJGPP makes large executables,
but is there a threshold?

   -Thanks for reading