Subj : Short executables
To   : David Noon
From : Eddy Thilleman
Date : Thu Jan 25 2001 12:41 pm

Hello David,

Monday 22 January 2001 20:55, David Noon wrote to Eddy Thilleman:

DN> Try this [I first posted this code in this echo back in 1998]:

DN> HWORLD.ASM  OS/2 32-bit command line program.

Hmm, maybe I'll try to assemble this, does TASM do the job? I don't have a real
OS/2 assembler, where would I find a decent one? I can vaguely remember ALP,
does that ring a bell?

DN> Another approach would be to change the memory model from FLAT to
DN> SMALL [after all, this is a 32-bit, native OS/2 program] which will
DN> reduce the size of some of the instructions. This is left to the
DN> student as an exercise. ... :-)

Yet another approach would be to do it in REXX or in a batch file, they have
the same functionality (display a small message) and are smaller. ;-))


 Greetings   -=Eddy=-

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