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Subject: Re: Free Rebel is quite strong.

Author: Francesco Di Tolla

Date: 00:48:19 02/12/03

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On February 10, 2003 at 19:28:13, Ed Schröder wrote:

>On February 10, 2003 at 15:32:02, F. Huber wrote:
>
>>Hello Ed,
>>
>>at first many thanks for your new free Rebel 12 - a really wonderful
>>present for old DOS freaks (as I am). :-)
>>
>>Two points I want to mention:
>
>>1) The problems with displaying the small analyze board are still there -
>>sometimes it disappears (or is partially deleted, if an other window
>>is moved over it), and has to be restored with selecting the standard
>>layout 1 again. (Not really a big problem, but nevertheless annoying).
>
>I am aware of it.
>
>
>>2) Has this enormous filesize of Rebel.exe (about 5MB) a special reason?
>>Looking ´into´ it I found, that more than 80% (at the end) are zero bytes,
>>so it seems that anything ´strange´ has happened in compiling - or?
>
>You noticed well. I am using a new compiler, I don't why the compiler adds 4Mb
>zeroes to an executable.
may be one can "strip" it. Under unix one has the strip command, may be with the
compiler comes a similar tool.

Anyway, also compilaer option affect the size.

regards
Franz



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