From: "Paul Gardiner" <paul AT laser-point DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Questions about overlay files
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 12:45:00 +0100
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
news:6480-Sun27May2001135738+0300-eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il...
> > From: "Paul Gardiner" <paul AT laser-point DOT co DOT uk>
> > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> > Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 11:44:57 +0100
> >
> > I'm having trouble finding out just about anything about DOS overlay
files.
> >
> > Does DJGPP have support for generating them?
>
> No, and I don't see why would you need that.
>
> Overlays are for programs whose code is too large to fit into the
> available amount of memory.  DJGPP supports up to 2GB of memory
> (including virtual memory) on plain DOS, and about 128MB of memory on
> a typical Windows machine, so you shouldn't need any kludges such as
> overlays when you compile your programs with DJGPP.

I wanted to provide a new implementation of an existing .ovl file.  Have I
misunderstood
what DJGPP is about?


Thanks for the quick reply, byt the way - especially on a Sunday. :-)

    Paul.