From: "A. Sinan Unur" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: How Come the Executable Files are SO Large? Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 18:36:15 -0400 Organization: Cornell University http://www.cornell.edu Lines: 29 Sender: asu1 AT cornell DOT edu (Verified) Message-ID: <3362835F.1AA7@cornell.edu> References: <01bc51ee$55eb94e0$030101c0 AT ibm DOT ibm DOT net> <33608B9F DOT 5D56 AT SPAMcs DOT com> <01bc527f$e8144ce0$030101c0 AT ibm DOT ibm DOT net> Reply-To: asu1 AT cornell DOT edu NNTP-Posting-Host: cu-dialup-0082.cit.cornell.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Don Berkley wrote: > > I am sorry that I did not look in the FAQ first. I was/am in > a hurry because I am completing a compiler that I am > writing for a college course. It is a very small compiler > and must run stand alone. So, I packaged my compiler > with pmodstub.exe and tried to run it on a second DOS > machine that does not have DJGPP installed on it. i do not know anything about pmode stuff but this sounds more like the file was corrupted. however, if that is not the case, did you try running strip on your executable before adding the pmode stub? you can find strip in your djgpp\bin directory. read the info docs on how to use it. finally, if it is acceptable, your program will run in a dos window in windows without cwsdpmi. -- Sinan ******************************************************************* A. Sinan Unur WWWWWW |--O+O mailto:sinan DOT unur AT cornell DOT edu C ^ http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/asu1/ \ ~/ *******************************************************************