From: "Gene" <genew AT fast DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Why are my file sizes so big?
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 00:23:36 -0400
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Well, the first thing you should do is use a .exe compressor, if you don't
have one, such as DJP or UPX to lower the size of the .exe . If you don't
have a .exe compressor then get DJP which can be downloaded from
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2misc/
. The filename is mlp107b.zip. Or you can get UPX. The UPX homepage is
http://cdata.tvnet.hu/~ml/upx.html  . These programs can help to lower the
size that the .exe uses.
Travis wrote in message <7mlgqa$h6$1 AT autumn DOT zipws DOT rcn DOT net>...
>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?
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