Re: Size of EXE

From: Illya Kysil (ikysil_at_nospam.ua)
Date: 11/24/03 

Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:04:41 +0200

Hello, Michael!
You wrote on Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:54:01 +0100:

 MV> Hi

 MV> I have made a program in D5 Ent. which contains some 700 forms and 150 datamodels.
 MV> Only 5 forms and 2 datamodels are autocreated.

 MV> The rest are created on the fly as I need them.

 MV> Now, jsut until today this has worked fine.
 MV> But today I had to upgrade a customer machine to the newest version.
 MV> This machine was a Windows 98Se with 128 Mb RAM.
 MV> It has 88% fri system resources.

 MV> But once I started to program, I got an error INSTANTLY saying there was not enough free
 MV> resources.
 MV> This eventhough the was no other programs running on the machine (besides scheduled job
 MV> and antivirus software).

 MV> My question is now.
 MV> Is this the way of the EXE file ?
 MV> Will this happen when I reach a specific size of the EXE file ?

 MV> ANd can I do anything to solve this (besides removing any unused forms from my projects,
 MV> which was only 2). ?
It seems to be a bug in Win9x regarding to embeded resources size.
Google may help you...

Regards
Illya Kysil, software developer
Delphi/C/C++/C#/Java/Forth/Assembler
If it is NOT SOURCE, it is NOT SOFTWARE. (C) NASA

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