ABN.ISCAMS@USC-ISID.ARPA (05/26/85)
NetLandians, Nice article in the latest PC Tech Journal by John Figueras gave me an idea. He reminds us that .COM files compiled by TurboPascal carry with them the TurboPascal runtime library - slightly more than 10Kb for the PC version. He suggests (and provides a wee little bit of code) that if we have a RUN program and run .CHN type files, we can save a LOT of space if we have a LOT of Turbo programs. The RUN.COM will carry the 10Kb of runtime library, but the .CHN files are nothing but pure code! I grabbed ARGLIB.PAS from a TURBTOOL.LBR at DEC-MARLBORO (thanks, guys), to provide handling the .CHN file name at the command line of CP/M, and the whole mess can be found (available via ANONYMOUS FTP) from my directory, ABN.ISCAMS, at my host, USC-ISID.ARPA. File names are: RUNCHN.PAS TESTRUN.PAS (in case you don't believe it) Nice little utility. I kept it simple (no handling of fancy parameters at the command line, only RUNCHN FOOB (with the assumption that FOOB is really FOOB.CHN, and FOOB.CHN doesn't expect any OTHER parameters handed to it!). Lost the pointer to the Pascal guys on the net - if someone might forward this (or an abbreviated extract) to them... Regards, David Kirschbaum Toad Hall ABN.ISCAMS@USC-ISID