Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/13/17:23:03
> 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)
I had 2M on one years ago, but that couldn't run anything under
windows. If all else fails they can run it under a DPMI server and
get the vitual memory from that - slow, but it works.
> > 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)?
That's actually already possible. I'll be releasing the code in a
short while, I want to clean it up and get the distribution license
done first (free distribution).
Malcolm
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