Tom Emerson ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: One suggestion this leads to is to create externally-compiled/linked files
: with no actual code, (or just a stub so it compiles) and just a series of
: "$version" statements built up to the 255 char limit per "file".

That would work, or use C.

: [I'm thinking that what HP means by "multiple source files" are files that
: are separately compiled & linked

Yes.  The 255 byte limit occurs because we use a common trick of a one
byte length before the string.
And we were lazy, so there was only one of these.

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