Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/13/15:39:07
Malcolm Taylor wrote:
>
> It will, eventually. The low memory use of the algorithm (ie less
> than 2.5Mb for extraction) means that a PMODE stubed self extractor
> will be usable even on a 4Mb machine, and I've not heard of any
> people having a 386+ with less than 4Mb. The only problem with PMODE
My 386 had only 2Mb (12 now!) for its first 2 years of life, so I
wouldn't count on that.
(But then again, I did get the thing in 91)
> is that I have had it not work on one OS/2 machine (never figured out
That's OS/2 for you. The uncrashable operating system that I had to
reboot every 5 minutes.
> why) but work fine on another. There will also eventually be SFX for
> Win32 and OS/2 at the very least.
Cool. What about a libmash.a or whatever (like zlib)?
>
> Malcolm
>
Bill
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