From: jonklipp AT freenet DOT edmonton DOT ab DOT ca () Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Need help making standalone with PMODE/DJ--"Program too large to fit in memory" Date: 22 Jan 1997 04:56:40 GMT Organization: Edmonton FreeNet, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Lines: 29 Message-ID: <5c46m8$jl0$2@news.sas.ab.ca> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: fn2.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote: : On Sun, 19 Jan 1997, Brian Zaugg wrote: : > Anyway, then I rename the cwsdpmi files that allowed me to run gcc so : > that they won't be in the way, and run my program: : > >who : > Program too big to fit in memory. : That's because you just effectively copied who into who.exe. Since who is : raw COFF image, DOS doesn't know how to run it, so it tries to interpret : its beginning as a COM program (because it doesn't have the MZ signature), : with obvious results. One other thing I found when playing with PMODE/DJ the other day. I was seeing if it would work with my Cheezy Asteroids Clone, with Allegro and everything built in. I found that if you stripped the COFF image (I imagine the same would happen with gcc -s, but I didn't try it), and then copy /B'ed it with pmodestub it didn't run with a "Program to big..." message, but when I recompiled and DIDN'T strip it, it worked just fine. Maybe Brian should try that and see if it works. hope that helps, jon -- jon klippenstein internet: klip AT cryogen DOT com uucp: alberta!ve6kik!dparrot!{root,klip} ham radio: ve6klp