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Date:	Wed, 13 Mar 2002 22:27:28 +0100
From:	Lapo Luchini <lapo AT lapo DOT it>
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Subject:	reducing binary distribution size with UPX

What about reducing distributed exes size using UPX?
Has it any side-kicks on cygwni binaries?
Of course bz2 archives wouldn't change but installed size could.

Just an idea (and I found nothing in the archives regarding it 0=) ).

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