Date:	Mon, 26 Jun 2000 08:38:57 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Josh Haglund <lhaglund AT wiktel DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: is it possible to use strip option in call to compiler
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On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Josh Haglund wrote:

> I use -s when compiling a chess program and then I enter strip chess.exe
> after to reduce the size even more.

Hmm?  If you use the -s compiler switch, the produced executable is
already stripped, so running strip.exe on it should not change its
size by even a single byte.  If this doesn't work for you, it's either
some usage error or a bug in one of the tools (the linker or
strip.exe).

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