ml> what's the name of the ORV or OVL file? it should

 ML> Max.ovl wasn't created. Which meant the overlayed compile failed. 

ahhh...

 ML> I got it to work in the end after much worming around.

 ML> The overlayed version splits the 830 kb file into a 470 kb'ish .exe
 ML> and 360 kb .ovl file.

cool!

now for our next trick... in the source, there is likely a place that
contains something similar to this pascal code from one of my own
programs...

ovrinit('postit.exe');

it would normally say this...

ovrinit('postit.ovr');

but i do a little trick where i bonary copy the ovr onto the tail end of
the exe... i distrbute only one program file (postit.exe in this case) but
it is overlayed O:)

the key to this trick being to get the name of the ovrinit stuff right O:)

{at}echo off
call comprels /b %&
packem postit
copy /b postit.exe + postit.ovr > nul
if exist postit.ovr del postit.ovr > nul

 ml> likely be the same as the exe... what does maxd do that
 ml> max doesn't?

 ML> I have no idea. Better use of memory maybe.

that is a good guess :)

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