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"Hal Styli" <no_spam@all> wrote:
>
>My version of CHOICE.COM on win98 gives 2 beeps when F1 is pressed, so I
>think  I'll leave it unless you think I should be doing something special
>with the special keys which I could put in as a non-standard extension.
>
>No promises but Im close to a version 0.5 of  a full blown choice command
>and would prefer to add no more features unless absolutely necessary to keep
>maintenance  time to a minimum. I just wanted to port my bat files from 98
>to xp and be confident that I would have the choice command available, as
>well as humour myself with some C.

You could just copy CHOICE.COM from Win98 and carry it with you.  It will
work just fine. in NT/2K/XP.

>How about reducing its size? If I could get it down to a couple of kb I
>would be tempted to stay with C for a final version.
>
>Obvious ideas are:-
>a) rewrite in assembler - which appeals to me since its an opportunity to
>learn more assembler too. I guess I could start with the assembler out put
>you can get from the compiler or keep hunting for an open source file as a
>starting point. Anyway thats for another day and another newsgroup.

If you keep it a Win32 app, going to assembler isn't going to reduce the
size.  There is almost no code in the program: the size is all in the
standard library.

However, if you did it as a 16-bit DOS app in assembler, you could make it
a true .COM and cut the size way down.
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