From:	Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: allegro specific: EXEDAT.EXE question.
Date:	Sun, 3 May 1998 10:51:46 +0100
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aj writes:
>i compile my program its 200k
>
>then i add a 400k DAT file on the end of it using the EXEDAT util.
>
>i expect the result to be 200k+400k = 600k.
>
>but its 1 meg... seems like 200k + ( 2 X 400k ).

I presume that you did global compression on this 400k datafile when you
saved it out from the grabber? If so you must use the -c switch to
exedat to preserve the compression: by default the data will be appended
in raw binary format.


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