From:	"Stephen Kodat" <skodat AT blazenet DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: Problem with Allegro Examples
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Eli Zaretskii wrote in message ...
>
>> > why is it that when I've tried to run the compiled examples
>> > provided with Allegro in a DOS box under Win98, I usually, but
>> > not for every example, get the error message "Program too big to fit in
>> > memory."

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>The usual reason for getting such messages is that you are trying to run
>something that isn't a .exe program.  Like if you say for example
>"gcc -c foo.c -o foo.exe" and then try to run the ``program'' foo.exe.

Thank you, now I have some clue as to what's going on, although I followed
the 'readme' included with allegro and compiled everything with the 'make'.
It seems to me that all the included examples were intended to be executable
programs, but I don't see why the great majority didn't turn out that way.
Maybe I'll try reinstalling from scratch.

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