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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: DDJ compression competition FLAME
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.201338.16258@qualcomm.com>
Date: 11 Apr 91 20:13:38 GMT
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In article <1991Apr09.012358.16300@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>However, it was silly to let people have the inputs in advance.  I am
>sure that some user, or several, will submit a program that outputs
>one byte (there were 3 possible test files) and just copies over the
>files.   (Harder to do this under DOS since you can't put megabytes in
>an executable)

No problem at all.  Just use overlays.  In fact, what you could easily do
is have a 300 or so byte executable portion followed by umpteen megabytes
of data.  The loader will load just the executable part and away you go.