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From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: stripping snapshots
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:11:13 +0100
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----Original Message----
>From: Lapo Luchini
>Sent: 20 September 2005 08:36

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> Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>> Could snapshots be provided this way instead or in addition to with
>> unstripped executables?
> 
> But wouldn't that remove any debugging info?
> (which is kinda needed, if a snapshot has got some bugs)
> 


  And besides, it's _really_ easy to strip them yourself:

tar -tjf cygwin-inst-20050920.tar.bz2 | grep \.exe | xargs strip



    cheers,
      DaveK
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