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General Questions about Euphoria..exe file size minimum

• Posted by lakatzz at juno.com Oct 13, 2001
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Let's start over here.  I am interested in programming & 
have for many years.  

Now Euphoria claims it is easy to create & learn how to 
create programs.  I am willing to learn.

I have read some of the introduction to Euphoria & have 
been playing with several pgms I have d/led.  I kind of 
like the idea I have the "choice" to edit, hack, whatever 
you want to call it, in order to make pgm do what I want 
it to do.  On substituting bmp for png, I knew I had to convert the image
files first, then I thought all I had
to do was edit the .eu program file.  Ok I was wrong.  
That is why I joined this mailing list was to find out 
what Euphoria is all about.  So far I see the same thing, updates to alot
of what I call plugin.  One pgm I was running worked with Win32Lib file
but another pgm would 
not.  It is confusing to me & I am sure alot of others, 
all these versions out there.

Something I wanted to know today was:

1.]  When compiling files to a .exe file, what is the minimun .exe would
be?  Say my .eu file is 10,000 bytes,
what would the .exe file size be?

In away I would hate to compile pgm as it would be easier
to change it uncompiled.  My biggest problem with all this
is, there are so many pgm files to keep up with.  Altho without "that"
version pgm file, the pgm itself probably 
would not work.  Compiled into one pgm file (.exe) compiled
pgm would work every time regardless if I upgraded a pgm 
file.  Example:  Win32Lib pgm file.

2.]  All these what I call plugins, dll.e as a example
here, don't they take up alot of RAM memory in general as they are all
loaded into memory when I turn on pc?

When I installed Euphoria just AFEW DAYS AGO now, I notice
instructions wanted Euphoria to be in path statement.
Win9x takes up alot of RAM memory.  I hesitated on having 
any more take up memory but am trying it out for the time 
being till I find something else does not want to work.

3.]  Does one really save hard drive space by leaving files
uncompress?  

4.] What about when a pgm file is upgraded (Win32Lib), does 
this mean I have to edit say my blackjack pgm file (bj.eu)
in order to get my blackjack pgm file to work again?

5.] What are some of the limitations of Euphoria program-
ming language?

Thank you for replying in advance & hope someone out there
understands....YES I AM A NEWIE BUT SO WERE YOU AT ONE 
TIME.

Lee