Message-Id: <199611132206.LAA01955@papaioea.manawatu.gen.nz>
Comments: Authenticated sender is <malcolm AT mail DOT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz>
From: "Malcolm Taylor" <malcolm AT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz>
Organization: Grafik Software
To: Bill Currie <billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz>, billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 11:04:26 +1200
Subject: Re: Smaller distribution archives
Reply-to: malcolm AT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

> Malcolm Taylor wrote:
> > It will, eventually. The low memory use of the algorithm (ie less
> > than 2.5Mb for extraction) means that a PMODE stubed self extractor
> > will be usable even on a 4Mb machine, and I've not heard of any
> > people having a 386+ with less than 4Mb. The only problem with PMODE
> 
> My 386 had only 2Mb (12 now!) for its first 2 years of life, so I
> wouldn't count on that.
> (But then again, I did get the thing in 91)

I had 2M on one years ago, but that couldn't run anything under 
windows. If all else fails they can run it under a DPMI server and 
get the vitual memory from that - slow, but it works.
 
> > why) but work fine on another. There will also eventually be SFX for
> > Win32 and OS/2 at the very least.
> 
> Cool.  What about a libmash.a or whatever (like zlib)?

That's actually already possible. I'll be releasing the code in a 
short while, I want to clean it up and get the distribution license 
done first (free distribution).
 
Malcolm