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Re: Making smaller bound executables

• Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> Apr 13, 2004
• 403 views

Guest wrote:

> posted by: fizzpop at nospam.icon.co.za
>
> Hi, has anybody else noticed that if you take a DOS32 source .ex,
> rename it to .exw and use bindw instead of bind, your resulting .exe
> is much smaller?
> In my case, 76k versus 188k (on Win2k sp4)
> I'm using Eu 2.4, but have seen this in earlier Eu releases too.

I think the main reason might be -- at least if the source code is not
too big like in your example --, that using 'bindw' your program is
bound to the file "pdexw.exe" (72 k in Eu 2.4), while using 'bind' the
program is bound to "pdex.exe" (about 182 k in Eu 2.4).

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Regards,
   Juergen

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