From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Shared libraries
Date: 26 May 1997 13:56:55 GMT
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> that said, if you would like to add shared library support to djgpp, you
> are definitely welcome.

Yeah it makes sense to have the option.
And if these djgpp-dlls were always stored in a specific location, say
c:\, or c:\djdll, or some recognized location, then nobody would get their
disks filling up with duplicated code. 

> don't you feel a bit frustrated when this or that 1 mb zip file you
> downloaded contains a 902K mfc40.dll? 

Only if the zip program also asks if I'm sure I want to replace
c:\windows\system\foo.dll (987K). :)
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Paul Derbyshire ao950 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca, http://chat.carleton.ca/~pderbysh