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From: mperdue@iquest.net (Mario Perdue)
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Subject: Re: memory
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 14:21:05 GMT
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On Mon, 02 Jun 1997 04:56:56 -0400, djinn666 <djinn666@concentric.net>
wrote:

>hi,
>
>i was just wondering if anyone could explain to me how memory allocation
>for the ny works. i've been looking at sample batch- files and i see the
>programmer d-loading tim,main,...ect to memory locations such as
>"0x8000....ect". how do they know the size of their file?, how do they
>know where to d-load it to? can some one please help. i've read the
>whole userguid and still cant grasp the concept.
>

Djinn,

The DOS command DIR will give you the size of a file. Once you have
that, you just add an appropriate offset to the address to allow room
for the entire file.

This is one of the reasons I wrote TGA2IMG. I didn't want to mess with
all these file offsets. My images are part of the code and can be
anywhere the linker wants.

Mario