On Monday, 1994-09-26  Bill Stone wrote to David Noon about "Pl/i" as
follows:

BS> Dave, I seem to recall from the first beta of PL/1 for OS2 on the
BS> DEVCON disks a rather hefty (as in 1.2 MEG +) runtime for PL/1 for
BS> OS2. What's the story with the released version? It's bad enough
BS> dealing with the runtimes from Realizer and the various visual
BS> Rexxes... and they are considerably smaller than PL/1's.....

Hi Bill,

I have some good news and some bad news.

The good news is that the DLL's have been split up into smaller chunks
(50K-400K). The bad news is that they have rewritten LE/2 to be
multi-threading safe (i.e. bigger) and they have added an SQL
interface in the Professional Edition to support DB2/2 and/or DDCS/2.

So now you can ship about 1.8MB, but you can do it in increments.
Running the EXEHDR utility on your finished .EXE will tell you which
.DLL's you need to bundle with your program. Still, it is rather
smaller than the DDE4xxxx.DLL libraries for C Set ++.

Regards

Dave

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