And were back at C.  
After spending some time setting up a prototype in assembler, I do see how it's way better at some tasks, like direclty inclusing binary files etc, but progress is still slow and the next target date is nearing: it's Rsync-time again.

Some notes that I had forgotten already:

• When using SAS/C: To ignore some warnings at compile time, use the scoptions command.
  Under "message options" you can list the warning type numbers you want to ignore.
  This will create a "SCOPTIONS" file (e.g. with IGNORE=100 ) which will be picked up by the compiler.
• You can stull use the assembler IncBin by including these in a separate assembler file, compiling that to an object and link that object file.
  Files will then be embeded in the executable, which might or might not be better (postloading them with a graphical loader is also nice)