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.EXE file questions..

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keeyean

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Sep 29, 2001
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i have 2 questions regarding make project to .exe file

1.before i make my project to .EXE file.. the file size is 1.02M.. but after i made it to exe file, the file size change to 1.7M.. is that normal??

2. how do i save the exe file into 2 disks?? or how do i minimize the exe file??
 
1.) Compiling code *usually* makes the result bigger.
2.) Use a file compression utility like WinZip ( to compress the file. You should easily be able to compress 1.7MB to fit on a floppy. Nate Gagne
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AKA Nick Burns - Your Company's Computer Guy
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what if i don't want to zip the file.. how do i save into 2 disk??
 
This is the ackward way to split "MyFile.exe" into two files....[tt]

OrgFile$="MyFile.exe"
ff = FreeFile
Open OrgFile$ For Binary As #ff
FirstSplit$ = String$(LOF(ff) \ 2, 0)
SecondSplit$ = String$(LOF(ff) - Len(FirstSplit$), 0)
Get #ff, 1, FirstSplit$
Get #ff, , SecondSplit$
Close #1
ff = FreeFile
Open "MyFile.1st" For Binary As #ff
Put #ff, 1, FirstSplit$
Close #ff
ff = FreeFile
Open "MyFile.2nd" For Binary As #ff
Put #ff, 1, SecondSplit$
Close #ff
FirstSplit$ = ""
SecondSplit$ = ""
[/tt]

Create "MyFile.exe" from the two files splits....
[tt]
NewFile$ = "MyNewFile.exe"
ff = FreeFile
Open "MyFile.1st" For Binary As #ff
FirstSplit$ = String$(LOF(ff), 0)
Get #ff, 1, FirstSplit$
Close #ff
ff = FreeFile
Open "MyFile.2nd" For Binary As #ff
SecondSplit$ = String$(LOF(ff), 0)
Get #ff, 1, SecondSplit$
Close #ff
ff = FreeFile
Open NewFile$ For Binary As #ff
Put #ff, 1, FirstSplit$
Put #ff, , SecondSplit$
Close #ff
FirstSplit$ = ""
SecondSplit$ = ""
[/tt]


...a better way would be to allow the PDW to split a huge executable into multiple cabs. Do you see where I'm heading with this?
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