From: "Damian Yerrick" <NOSP AT Musenet@pineight.8m.com>
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Subject: Re: Some questions
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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 22:04:26 GMT
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"Alexey Gaev" <Alexey DOT Gaev AT p25 DOT f21 DOT n452 DOT z2 DOT fidonet DOT org>,
a DJGPP newbie, wrote:

>   About info.exe: it seems to work, shows some topics, but when I press
'h' to
> start tutorial (I REALLY love tutorials ;), it shows me the message at the
> bottom of my screen about ENOENT. What file does it miss?

Depends on what exact error message it gives?

>   Second question: Is there any kind of Language Reference in the package?
For
> example, I want to know if I can tell the compiler to pass values to
functions
> in specified registers, like I did in WATCOM: #pragma aux MyFunc parm
[eax]...

Try poking around in info for GCC.

>   Third: is there any way to link programs on DJGPP with .obj files,
created,
> for example, by TASM?

No. The file formats are incompatible, and .obj files want to
run in real mode not DPMI.

> And, finally: don't you think that 104 Kb for "Hello, world"
> program, even with debug information, is too much? ;)
> WATCOM C gives me 31 Kb in the same
> conditions (of course, not counting dos4gw.exe ;).

CWSDPMI + 104 Kb < DOS4GW + 31 KB
So there. If you want Watcom or DJGPP programs smaller,
get UPX. It packs even stripped DJGPP .exe's about 2.5:1.
http://upx.tsx.org/
And it'll pack CWSDPMI.exe but not DOS4GW.exe.

According to copyright law, is it infringement to
"modify this software" by running UPX on it?

>   Please answer to serenkov AT gsu DOT unibel DOT by.

Posted and emailed.

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