Putting SDK on a Zip disk

Edward Ballot (eballot@geoworks.com)
Fri, 7 Feb 1997 09:38:19 -0800 (PST)

Instead of deleting the GYM files, you can delete the SYM files (which
are bigger). GYM files are Generic Symbol files. They contain just
enough information to make swat happy, but are generic enough that
they can be used on most versions of the corresponding geode (radical
changes in the geode can cause problems, though). The one drawback to
using GYM files is that you won't get the detail of symbol information
when stepping through a system geode.

There are a couple of geodes for which Swat requires the detailed
information in the SYM files. These are the Loader, Kernel, Generic
UI, and Specific UI. All others (usually) don't matter.

So if you really want to save space, start deleting SYM files.

-Ed-

Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 21:42:53 -0500
From: "Edward Di Geronimo Jr." <edwdig@bergen.org>
Sender: owner-geos-dev@lifelike.com
Precedence: bulk

Hi everyone,

I just got a Zip drive (still need a SCSI card though), and I want to put
the SDK on a Zip disk. The SDK takes about 118 megs. So how can I trim off
20 megs? Probably want to trim off about 25 to get room to work. I want to
keep the docs on it, as I didn't download the 3.0 docs for nothing. My only
debugging will be with a desktop with the desktop emulation, so that means I
can delete all the Zoomer and PT9000 files. I've never seen Swat use a GYM
file, so I can delete them, right? Anything else I can delete that I didn't
think of?

So, which SYM files can I delete?

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