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- From: ade@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Adrian Collins)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: Turbo Vision is too fat!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.101512.17563@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 10:15:12 GMT
- References: <11JAN199305012619@trentu.ca> <1993Jan11.125437.24927@dec8.ncku.edu.tw>
- Organization: Manchester Computing Centre
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- In <1993Jan11.125437.24927@dec8.ncku.edu.tw> msc@snoopy.ncku.edu.tw (Mac Su-Cheong (MSC)) writes:
-
- > hmmm, I know TV is a very complete lib (it's nice), but is it possible
- > to separate the one big library into many small libraries? Then I can
- > link those I needed and leave out those unnecessary, resulting in
- > smaller executable file. It is very rare for me to write big program,
- > most of my programs don't exceed 1000 lines. Is it possible to break
- > that lib into smaller libs by myself?
-
- I've been writing a customisable install program using Turbo Vision, and I
- was worried that the executable would be >> 200K which would be a substantial
- portion of an installation disk.
-
- However, provided you're not using resources (eg. string lists) or overlays
- then you can use an executable compression program such as lzexe which'll
- also get rid of any extra info (such as debugging info or overlays) which
- exist after the executable code. This managed to reduce a large executable
- (about 320K including debugging info) down to about 65K and doesn't cause
- much of a loading overhead.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Adrian
-
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- Adrian Collins, MCC Network Unit, The University, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
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