NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/comp/os/vms/20065

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Subject: Re: ballooning EXE size
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Date: 29 Dec 92 22:44:22 CST
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Organization: M. W. Kellogg, Houston TX
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  If your image has more than "n" image sections (where "n" is a number
I can't recall exactly, in the neighborhood of 95), demand zero compression
will be turned off, and the EXE will grow and grow...

  If that is the case here, try adding a line to your options file that
says  something like

ISD_MAX = 255

  for example...make it at least somewhat bigger than the total number of
image sections as shown by a link map. This will increase the number of image
sections the linker will allow before it gives up in despair and refuses to
compress the DZRO sections on disk. I caused some chemical engineers' programs
to shrink by several orders of magnitude using this...

Lee K. Gleason
Control-G Consultants
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