Answering msg from Paul Edwards to rowan crowe,
on Wednesday June 14 1995 at 08:23

 PE>> Borland for DOS - 219656
 PE>> Watcom/16 for DOS - 209542

 rc>> Do these have overlays?

 PE> No.  BFN.  Paul.

    Good stuff. For such a small EXE you wouldn't need them anyway.

    If you look at the DOS version of BinkleyTerm, there is BT.EXE and
BTBIG.EXE. They are equivalent, except BT is overlayed. BT.EXE is about 40k
bigger, due to the extra overlay code and EXE headers. Also, a non
overlayed executable means you can PKLITE it.

 rc>> Nice and small. I like.

 rc>> golded   exe     701,568 12-04-95    5:53

 PE> If you're serious about that, why not just ask the author to
 PE> put out a cut-down version as well as the full version?

    That's the current discussion in GOLDED. Odinn has recently added QWK
support and there's been a bit of an uproar from a few folks, because QWK
is really nothing to do with ftn. It also means that GoldED is getting
bigger still:

 736320  DeflatX 295214  60%  17-05-95  23:16  c0f32125 --w-  GOLDED.EXE
 ^^^^^^

    That's GoldED 2.50.A0517, the most recent alpha release AFAIK.

    The problem is, how does one cut down? What do you cut out? How can you
please everyone? It's impossible. As Odinn says, he already has to maintain
and support 3 versions; if he released a "Lite" version then that
number doubles.

    The next *full* release will be a little smaller, hopefully it won't
have all the extra debugging info included.

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