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From: timk@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca (Tim Kuehn)
Subject: Re: Another Clipper EXE question!
Organization: TDK Consulting Services
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 91 20:03:12 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.200312.1787@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca>
References: <H*!&|=_@rpi.edu>

In article <H*!&|=_@rpi.edu> mcintyre@cs.rpi.edu (David McIntyre) writes:
>Can someone explain to me why the heck the following program (which prints
>out an ascii table) is 159K when compiled with Clipper S87?

[...program deleted...]

>I guess the linker is including all of Clipper's library, huh?  

yep. 

>Does a better linker fix this?

I've used Borland's linker ( version 1.0 or 1.1 I think), and the final 
code is still big. At least it gets done faster though. 

>Dave "mr question" McIntyre         |    "....say you're thinking about a plate
>mcintyre@turing.cs.rpi.edu          |     of shrimp.....and someone says to
>office : 518-276-8633               |     you 'plate,' or 'shrimp'......"

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