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From: farren@hoptoad.UUCP
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Subject: Re: The cost of large uninitialized static/global arrays
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Date: Thu, 29-May-86 03:51:13 EDT
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In article <2810@utcsri.UUCP> petera@utcsri.UUCP (Smith) writes:
<<  A whole lot about executables in MS-DOS which have vast numbers of
    zeros embedded in the file >>

    If you're using Microsoft C, or the Microsoft Macro Assembler, you
might like to look at the EXEPACK utility, which addresses this very
problem by encoding long runs of identical bytes.  This can result in
quite significant improvement in .EXE file sizes.  (There is also supposed
to be a switch in the latest versions of the linker which will automatically
produce packed executables, but I don't know what it is.)

Mike Farren
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