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To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
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From: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
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On Fri, 17 Jan 1997 12:02:10 -0500 (EST)  John Fieber wrote:

> The second, SP, takes the form of a C++ ...  The shared library tips
> the scales at 1.5 megabytes!

To encourage people though, it builds really easily on different
platforms.  (OK, I've only used gcc ... usual C++ warnings on
compilers apply.)

And think, 1.5Mb is what ... 50c these days? :)

Thanks John to the pointers to written documentation -- SGML still has
me scratching my head.  I don't "get it" yet.  Off to the bookshop ...

Giles