From:	Andrew Cottrell <andnews AT ihug DOT com DOT oz DOT au>
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Subject:	Re: unsupported coff header
Date:	Tue, 28 Jan 2003 20:52:31 +1100
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>All of the exe files you have downloaded from the 2.04 page will not
>compress with UPX as they are all built with the Binutils that UPX
>does not like. The files from Simtel may compress if they were built
>with an old version of Binutils, but the latested Binutils is requried
>in order to build some of the files so the only option is for someone
>to look at the UPX source and fix it.

I made a mistake here, some of the packages recommend using Binutls
2.13 instead of older ones.

Andrew

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