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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 16:59:55 -0400
From: "Charles Krug Jr." <charles AT pentek DOT com>
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Subject: Re: HELP: Enormous filesizes.
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Ben Logan wrote:

> I found out about DJGPP yesterday and downloaded it.  I've never
> programmed in C/C++ before, so this morning I downloaded a C tutorial.
> It had some simple programs, so I tried them out and they compiled and
> ran without errors.  Here was one of the programs:
>
> main()
> {
> }
>
> That do-nothing program compiled to an 84k .exe file!

This is covered in Eli's excellent FAQ list.  Download it, read it, and
understand it.