From: "Pavlos" <trash24379 AT usa DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Why are my file sizes so big?
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 03:35:34 +0300
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>> How come a program written with DJGPP and Allegro turns out so large??
>> I made a simple program do display a bitmap on the screen @ 640x480 and
it
>> was over 700k! what can i do to prevent this?
>
You can reduce your exe's size even more. Look at the Allegro docs, Reducing
your executable size.
Pavlos