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Number   :  516
Date     :  2001-08-03
Author   :  Kan Yabumoto
Subject  :  Re: lite version??
Size(KB) :  1



It is true that most of the XXCOPY16 features will not be used
in a really serious manner. But, just for the sake if "simplicity"
of not trying to remember which version has what, we make the
standard XXCOPY16 version come with the same set of command switches.

As the XXCOPY16 size grew to be over 200 KB, the size issue became
quite real. Considering it was only about 60 KB a few years ago,
we could remove much of the fat and come up with XXCOPYLT.EXE as
being suggested here.

OK, we will put it in our wish list. I'm not sure how soon we can
come with one but we will see. At least, we can reduce some exotic
feature and redundant help feature immediately to reduce 20-40% of
the size without much work...

I wonder what would be an acceptable and also ultimate goal in the
program size for this.

Kan Yabumoto
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At 2001-08-03 13:11, F. Schmultzburger wrote:
>OK, I'm not looking for flames here, but I have a complaint. Xxcopy
>is too big! Let me explain...
>
>I have a fairly complete boot floppy that my collegues and I to use
>when dealing with clients computers when windows is screwed up. I
>really like XXCOPY, but it's much bigger than MS's XCOPY, and the boot
>disk has less than 10k to spare. Now, I understand that XXCOPY has
>far more capability, but I would be willing to trade a some portion of
>"extra" functionality for an .exe file that is the same size or
>smaller than MS's XCOPY.
>
>How possible would it be to have a 16-bit "XXCOPYLT" (xxcopy lite)?
>If that is just not going to happen, does anybody have any
>alternatives for a XCOPY-like program that uses the same basic
>switches as MS?
>
>Thanks.



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