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| (...) I've made a DOS binary. Wow, the .exe is 600K. Does that sound reasonable? Steve (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) It sounds like it includes debugging information. I used quite a few heavy libraries so even the stripped version will probably be close to 300 kb (there should be a "strip" utility in GNAT). Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@nbi.dk (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Ahh, running it through strip (with default options, I didn't decipher the info strip spits out when run with no params) gave a 248K file. Much better. You want to put the DOS buildmpd.exe on your webpage with the other files, Jacob? Do you (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Yup. (...) Would be fine. Can you zip it and send it to me? (...) Was there any other problem than the long file names? I can do the renaming on Linux too (and it's only neccessary for DOS), so you don't have to send those to me. Play well, (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Will do. (...) The problems were: a) The long file names caused trouble linking. b) GNAT/GW-ADA requires the package name to be the same as the file name (don't know if this is a general requirement of Ada or not). If there had been any (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| Actually, one anomoly I noticed is that the processing messages aren't written to stdout. I couldn't pipe them to a file. I don't know if this is strictly a DOS-thing, or an Ada-thing, or something else. Steve (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) This is kind of a Unix thing. You write error and processing messages to stderr so they don't interfer with the data flow (Unix uses pipes a lot). I can't remember how you redirect stderr to stdout in DOS (but it should be in the manuals). (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) OK, I can't argue with that. (...) Hmm. I could be wrong, but I don't think there is any reasonable way to manage stderr. Definitely no command-line directive (like piping), and I can't find any command in the reference. Oh, well. Not a big (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) You can with just about any decent 3rd-party command shell, e.g. 4DOS (1), bash, etc. Cheers, - jsproat 1. For those unfamiliar with it, 4DOS is a command.com almost-clone, with a ton of new (and useful) features that you'd normally find in (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)
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