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From: defaria@hpclapd.HP.COM (Andy DeFaria)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: EXE file size, C vs. Pascal
Message-ID: <660090@hpclapd.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Nov 90 09:04:51 GMT
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>/ hpclapd:comp.lang.c / nuspljj@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Joseph J. Nuspl Jr.) /  5:50 pm  Nov  9, 1990 /
>
>Over the past year, I have written several Unix-like commands -- cat, ls, ...
>in Turbo Pascal 5.5.  I have recently rewritten them in Turbo C++ hoping
>to improve speed and/or reduce file size.  The C compiled programs are
>significanly larger.  Cat in Pascal is ~3k, Turbo C ~17, DeSmet C ~10.

I'm in the process of learning C better (and learning C++).  I'm using TC++
and would be interested in your cat, ls, etc routines.

defaria@hpclapd.hp.com