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From: bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: reducing size of exe files
Message-ID: <1314@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: Mon, 8-Jun-87 13:40:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: dataio.1314
Posted: Mon Jun  8 13:40:39 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jun-87 03:36:51 EDT
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Reply-To: bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Organization: Data I/O - FutureNet Corp., Redmond, WA
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In article <2723@mtgzz.UUCP> rosen@mtgzz.UUCP (t.rosenfeld) writes:
<It's my understanding that the .EXE format is a standard one that LINK
<produces. I have tried EXEPACK on several programs not created by me
<with no problem. If someone has actually had trouble using EXEPACK on
<other programs I'd be interested to hear about it.

I have trouble with EXEPACK now and then. It occasionally produces an
EXE file that promptly crashes. Adding or removing a few bytes of code
from an object module causes it to start working again. Using the linker
with the /E switch exhibits the same results (must use the same code).