From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT father DOT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: File splitter or disassemble
Date: 29 Sep 2000 19:10:05 GMT
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cat AT animal DOT u-net DOT com wrote:
:    The fact is that there is already a split utility shipped with
: DJGPP. That is about 50k or so. The above script is about 500
: bytes. Also the D-shell comes with 'info', 'find', 'awk' and 'grep'
: clones. All of these are rambling scripts of a few hundred bytes
: or so. 

That's not entirely fair. You should include the interpreter in the
comparison. Otherwise I could make an interpreter that only takes a
script of one (1) byte to do the operation.


Right,

						MartinS