From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: Is DOS dead?
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NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 18:51:42 GMT
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Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 18:51:42 GMT
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On Sun, 19 Mar 2000 18:05:16 +0100, Michael Tippach <mtippach AT gmx DOT net>
wrote:

>Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 
>> Besides, the stub loader is heavily optimized for size (it's 2KB long),
>> and the above test would bloat it quite a bit.
>
>There's always a price to pay. OTOH, would it really matter if the stub
>gets like 100-200 bytes bigger?

Depends if it would actually be 100-200.  Write it and post the patch
to djgpp-workers.

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