BB>  > BB>   I haven't tried to tack stuff on to the end of an
BB>  > BB>   executable file Would the relocation not just
BB>  > BB>   overwrite it?
BB>  >   It gets "ignored" you have to read from disk
BB>   You lost me, Jasen. A file is a file. You append to it,
BB>   it gets longer.
   Only the portion known to be the executable portion, as
   defined in the file header, is loaded into memory.
   The remainder is ignored when the program is loaded.
   I have a little ANSI interpreter which I compiled, noted
   the size of, and then recompiled with the size of the
   .EXE included as the point at which to begin reading the
   file for .ANS information. You can use a binary append to
   attach any .ANS file to it, and when it runs, it opens itself
   and reads the ansi data and outputs it to the screen without
   the benefit of ANSI.SYS being installed. I appended all my
   ansi graphics files, which total well over the 590K or so my
   system has free, and it runs quite well.
   Only the actual .exe code data is read into the system memory.

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