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From: las@apr.UUCP (Larry Shurr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Code size problems
Message-ID: <378@apr.UUCP>
Date: 30 Dec 87 02:55:32 GMT
References: <337@caus-dp.UUCP> <431@humu.NOSC.MIL>
Reply-To: las@apr.UUCP (Larry Shurr)
Organization: APR, Columbus, OH
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In article <431@humu.NOSC.MIL> kent@humu.NOSC.MIL (Kent K. Kuriyama) writes:
>In article <337@caus-dp.UUCP>, marcos@caus-dp.UUCP (Marcos R. Della) writes:
>> I just got my copy of TP 4.0 about three weeks ago and have been busy
>> converting my BBS system from 3.0 to 4.0. Unfortunatly I ran into some
>> problems and after several calls to Borland, ran into a brick wall...

>The lack of overlay's in TP 4.0 is a very serious shortcomming.  We have
>a 3.0 application that has 30 screens that are all overlayed.  Under 4.0
>all of these screens would be memory resident increasing the size of the
>program by 120K.

It may also be possible to solve the problem by using an overlay link
editor.  I have used Phoenix' Plink86 successfully (with Lattice C, this
was much too long ago for Turbo Pascal).  The successor to Plink is
Plink86 Plus.  I see in a recent PC-Brand advertisement that Plink86
Plus lists for $495 and is sold by PC-Brand for $326, creating the
spectacle of a link editor whose cost is many times that of the compiler.
Not such a great deal, hmmm... too bad.  As I recall, Plink86 was a
traditional link editor - somewhat difficult to use, but compensating
with useful features and also capable of linking extremely large programs
if somewhat slowly.  Maybe Borland should consider a new product: Turbo
OVLink?  Maybe Phoenix should consider Borland pricing policies.

regards, Larry
-- 
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Name: Larry A. Shurr (cbosgd!osu-cis!apr!las or try {cbosgd,ihnp4}!cbcp1!las)
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