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From: carlf@agora.rain.com (Carl Fago)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: FRACINT 16 - IS IT ONLY FOR 386 & BIGGER MACHINES ???
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.025803.18981@agora.rain.com>
Date: 21 Jun 91 02:58:03 GMT
References: <1991Jun20.163648.14438@cbnewsl.att.com>
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Organization: Open Communications Forum
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In article <1991Jun20.163648.14438@cbnewsl.att.com> rbr@bonnie.ATT.COM writes:
>After capturing all the articles for fraint16.zoo and doing the
>usual uudecode, I started to reconfigure the *.zoo file into
>a couple of ZOO files.  As I only have an XT with 360k floppies
>at home, I usually download large file from the UNIX host to a
>PC over our LAN. The direct connection makes it many times faster
>than a 1200/2400 transfer over the phone lines.  However,
>FRACTINT.EXE results in a 470K file.  How can that fit on a 360k disk?
>
>
>Does anyone know how to split an ".exe" into  two parts and get it back
>together on a PC so it can be executed.  Another thought, how can
>DOS load such a large executable?  Must I have extended memory just to
>load this thing?  I only have 500+ K in the transient area.

1.  Try using BACKUP or your favorite backup program to put it onto
360k floppies.  Though it won't be of much use if you don't have a harddisk
at home as it won't be able to run split onto different floppies.

2.  You might try PKLITE (part of the PKZIP/UNZIP set).  It compresses .EXE
files (though doesn't work if it has overlays.)

3.  You don't need extended/expanded memory that I know of.  It may use the
overlay system that I mentioned in 2 above.  In which case part of the
executable stays on the disk to be called as the program executes.  For
instance, the documentation stuff rolled into the .EXE.  It might not
need this (unless for a help screen) so wouldn't have to load it.  The
developers did a good job with the thing but they should have done something
different with the docs.  Makes the .EXE too big IMHO.

Hope this helps a little.  Sorry if it is a little vague, it is all off the
top of my head.


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