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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><i>Why can't you do that with a
multi-file application?<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Good point. You can. I stand corrected.</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Cheers,</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>David</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:Tahoma'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-family:Tahoma'> Vlad Dumitrescu [mailto:vladdu55@gmail.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 05, 2007 16:03<br>
<b>To:</b> dmercer@alum.mit.edu<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Erlang Questions<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [erlang-questions] Stand Alone Erlang or Equivalent</span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmailquote>Hi, </span><br>
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<span class=gmailquote>On 9/5/07, <b>David Mercer</b> <<a
href="mailto:dmercer@gmail.com">dmercer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>A stand-alone executable is very useful for putting on a USB
thumb drive. I<br>
keep a lot of utilities on my USB drive that I can plug in wherever I go.<br>
Imagine being able to stick your USB drive into any Windows PC and firing up <br>
Erlang.</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Why can't you do that with a
multi-file application?<br>
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I once put the whole Eclipse installation including Erlide (and thus a full
Erlang installation) on an USB and after some small tweaking it worked fine.
The only trouble was that it was slow (because Eclipse needs to touch many
files), but it worked. <br>
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regards,<br>
Vlad</p>
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