Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 19:28:48 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Sterten <sterten AT aol DOT com>
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Subject: Re: pokeb peekb
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On 19 Jul 2001, Sterten wrote:

>  >> :)) You just forgot all the startup code.
>  >
>  >Who cares about the startup code? 
> 
> it adds to the other code. How large can it be ? 500K ?

About 25KB.

>  >You don't meant to say that someone 
>  >would actually write a program that just puts the character in the middle 
>  >of a screen and exits, do you?  Who would need a ridiculous toy program 
>  >like that?  That's even less useful than the proverbial hello world.
> 
> it's useful to teach newbies proper usage of DJGPP  :-)
> (put it in the FAQ , to save others the time which I spent !)

FAQ is for FREQUENTLY-asked questions.  This one is only asked once, so 
far.  It doesn't qualify.