7 May
2002
7 May
'02
3:31 a.m.
And thusly Ben Franchuk spake:
Not just that- the Microsoft BASIC compiler provided two modes
of compilation- one that produced HUGE stand-alone binaries, and
one that kept the HUGE chunk of common code in a runtime-library.
That library had to either be in the current directory or somewhere
along the path...
-dq
What pisses me off is the fact that both systems use dynamic libraries.
This makes a real mess of things. I liked dos -- you have a program
it runs from the .exe non of this you need version blah blah blah ...
DOS sometimes needed library files - take 32-bit protected mode. You need to
have a DOS extender file in the path or directory of the executable.