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From:	"Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
Organization:	INTI
To:	Darren Grant <darn AT xl DOT ca>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Wed, 27 Aug 1997 16:42:07 +0000
MIME-Version:	1.0
Subject:	Re: Optimizing target size

Darren Grant <darn AT xl DOT ca> wrote:

> I have written a C command-line util that links the Allegro library with
> a very small amount of my own code.  The target executable (in ms-dos)
> is huge!  (just under 300k)  What can I do to reduce the size of this?
> Is the entire Allegro library being linked?  (I'm only using a very
> small part of it)

1) Compress the EXE with DJGPP.
2) If not enough cut some parts of Allegro (video drivers, etc). Is a hard 
task.

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