From:	"Carolyn Kelly-Pajot" <dehacked72 AT nospam DOT hotmail DOT com>
References:	<6jAMFp$cv2B AT up-20088 DOT netsurf DOT de>
Subject:	Re: strip.exe and stubify.exe - what are they for?
Date:	Wed, 3 Dec 1997 18:07:04 -0500
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Message-ID:	<#Xjim#DA9GA.218@upnetnews03>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Hasan Karahasan, DJ2xt wrote in message <6jAMFp$cv2B AT up-20088 DOT netsurf DOT de>...
>I have been recomended to run the executable after a compilation through these
>utilities. Okay strip makes the .exe smaller, but what does stubify do? The
>executable runs with no difference also if I do not use them. There is no info
>about.

Stubify is just a misc. program. It adds 2k of DOS EXE header to a COFF image.
If you did not have this, you would need go32-v2 (I think) to run your programs.

Or you could use the Pmode stub.

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