hi Rob,

 * Re:
   to   Andrew Grillet

 RL> You see...  EMX is a port of a unix package.  By default it creates
 RL> unix style a.out executable files.  OS/2 can run these by 1) sticking
 RL> a short little .exe file header onto the beginning of the file (the
 RL> program emxbind.exe does this), and 2) using emx.dll to handle the
 RL> unix system calls that a.out file is making.

 RL> This is slow.  This eats ram.  But it offers the highest level of
 RL> compatability with unix.  If you're porting unix stuff to OS/2,
 RL> that's the easy way.

And it runs under DOS with the emx.exe program loader and VCPI or the
rsx.exe program loader and DPMI.  That capability is the only reason (apart
from debugging) to compile to a.out format.  Use GCC (not emx;-) -Zomf
-lwrap -s to compile OS/2 programs that use the RTL DLLs.  That way you
spare both RAM and disk space: DLLs are loaded on demand, and their code
and constant data is shared by all their clients.   Generally, only stack
and heap space will be privately owned by an application instance then.

regards,
         hugo
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