DOS "libraries" (was APPLEVISION Monitor)

From: Carlos Murillo <carlos_murillo_at_epm.net.co>
Date: Tue May 7 13:20:05 2002

At 11:31 AM 5/7/02 -0400, you wrote:
>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

At least with QuickBasic you had the choice of incorporating BRUN45.EXE
and BRUN45.LIB into the .exe file. I remember that with Borland
compilers you had to include lots of files such as
CGA.BGI, HERC.BGI, EGAVGA.BGI together with any application that
you wrote.


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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Tue May 07 2002 - 13:20:05 BST

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