From:	Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: The size of .exe
Date:	5 Nov 1998 13:09:25 GMT
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The zr0 (thezr0 AT aol DOT com) wrote:
: <<Compiling with -s strips all the debug information, so you save about
: 60% of the exe file size.  After, download DJP from the MLP distribution
: on Simtel (where you got DJGPP).  Use it to compress you exes by 50% or
: more.
: So a 700k file ends up being 200K and then 100K.

: Nicolas Blais>>

: i tried compiling using the -s argument,
: it gave me a list of errors a mile long
: when it compiles and runs w/o problem
: with -o. Can you help me?

Did you use both "-o" and "-s"?


Right,

							MartinS
 

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