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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 08:50:37 +0200
From: Laszlo Molnar <laszlo DOT molnar AT eth DOT ericsson DOT se>
To: Emiliano Baggiani <eliobagg AT tin DOT it>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: How do I reduce the program sizes using Allegro?
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In-Reply-To: <199810042222.AAA25784@mail.tol.it>; from Emiliano Baggiani on Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 12:15:07AM +0100
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 12:15:07AM +0100, Emiliano Baggiani wrote:
> On 4 Oct 1998 at 15.50, ? wrote
> > I want to reduce the size of the .exe.  I know Allegro includes alot of
> > stuff, but I don't need it all.  I don't need the sound library or true
> > color.  Can anyone help?
> First of all you need an EXE compressor like 'DJP.exe' (check the DJ
> archives).
> It also supports DJGPP "Dynamically Loaded Module" (DLM) technology.

No, it doesn't. DJP can only detect DLM files, then it refuses compression.
The same thing is true for the successor of DJP, called UPX (now in
beta test; try http://www.cdata.hu/~ml/upx.html).

bye, Laszlo