Disclaimer: I understand that once I release something into the wild, there
is not much I can do about it.
I see two problems with the two included mTCP programs:
1. I took great care to write user documentation for my programs and the
DHCP.TXT and FTP.TXT files should be included with the executables. The
README.TXT file is kind of important too - it gives the requirements,
features, and where to go for help. Distributing executables that were
originally part of an ensemble without the general README.TXT or the
program specific instructions is king of wrong.
2 - The file sizes for DHCP.EXE and FTP.EXE are different than the versions
that I compiled and distributed. I am guessing that you ran them through
some sort of image compressor. I can't tell though; did you include the
batch files or a makefile that you used to process the original
executables?
Your version of FTP.EXE takes 1 minute and 46 seconds to load and print out
the title line.
My standard version takes 2 seconds. That's 53x faster.
My UPX compressed version takes 5 seconds. That's 21x faster.
Your version is 55906 bytes and my UPX compressed version is 58395 bytes.
So my original compressed executable is a little bigger, but yours is
worthless on an 8088 class machine. Given that I wrote mTCP explicitly to
support 8088 class machines, I find this kind of reprehensible.
I suspect DHCP has the same problem; it is taking longer to run in DOSBox.
I hope the other programs are not compressed in the same way.
Please fix this - distribute the appropriate TXT files and fix whatever
compression program you are using, or better yet, use the originally
distributed UPXed binaries. My name is still on the programs and I don't
want other people to think that I am responsible for a nearly 2 minute
startup time.
Mike
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