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From: davidds@microsoft.UUCP (David D'SOUZA)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Multiple uses of the RC on an EXE file.
Message-ID: <58869@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 7 Nov 90 01:59:29 GMT
References: <442@shum.huji.ac.il> <119@metapyr.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidds@microsoft.UUCP (David D'SOUZA)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <119@metapyr.UUCP> marc@metapyr.UUCP (Marc Paige - The Karate Kid ) writes:
>In article <442@shum.huji.ac.il> fenster@shum.huji.ac.il () writes:
>>
>>The problem is that I can't use the RC to load more than one .RES file into the
>>.EXE file.
>>Is there any way around this ?
>
>binary copy RC files back to back.  We ran into this problem when our string
>tables grew to large for RC to compile.  We broke the tables into seperate .RC
>files and then complied each seperately.  You then use copy with the /b option
>to build the final RES file.

This is a bogus thing to do in general. In Win 2 this may have worked but
in Win3 the result is a bogus exe file.  The suggested method is to

#include "foo.rc"

in your main rc file. Then the 3.0 rc will generate one big res file.

Win 2 rc had some size limitations which were removed in Win 3.



--Dave