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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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