Re: Small executables was Re: Test message

I believe I knew that, but my executables are really turnkey and there
is no development phase after I make them. They are like the COM files
produced by TCOM.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick VanNorman" <rvn_at_forth.com>
To: "William Cook" <sftalk_at_forth.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 3:16 PM
Subject: [sftalk] Re: Small executables was Re: Test message

> Most of the 500K+ baggage you are carry around in the executable is
> the user interface tools: the assembler, memory dump windows, locate
> tools, etc. Remember, Forth is an interactive environment and the
> executable is a full blown (if primitive by modern standards) IDE.
>
> Rick
>
> Tuesday, April 29, 2003, 2:53:12 PM, you wrote:
>
> WC> My wife sells and supports a commercial accounting package which
uses
> WC> data files in DBF format. I write special purpose reports, data
import
> WC> programs, etc - whatever is not part of the system package but
desired
> WC> by her clients.
>
> WC> I have been using complied Basic and my executables are 50k to
60k. It
> WC> just feels wrong to replace them with ones ten times the size.
Of
> WC> course I'm not using the windows GUI. I suppose that's the real
reason
> WC> for the larger size.
>
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