From: "A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
Organization: Materials Science Centre
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 08:02:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Why are they so fat?
Message-ID: <29C186D7EED@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk>

On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, A.Appleyard wrote:
> The extra bulk that Martin Krieger complains of, is NOT insignificant for a
> user who has to keep a lot of compiled djgpp .EXE's. In a nearly full disk,
> such extra bits of store usage per file add up.

  Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> replied:-
> If that hurts, you should compress your .EXE files. Get DJP (the
> DJGPP-specific exe compressor) and run it on all your programs. ...

Having to uncompress each program as I need it would be a pain in the neck.
Automatic file-compressors like Doublespace and Stacker etc are notoriously a
dragon and a risk, and the first thing I did with my new PC was to edit its
AUTOEXEC.BAT to disable the Doublespace that came on it. How much extra work
would it involve to give djgpp an option to tell it to compile a program to
run in real-mode? to save the user from having to clutter his computer with a
second compiler for stray needs to compile small real-mode programs.