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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 15:31:05 +0100
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
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Subject: Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX
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 Earnie,

Donnerstag, 14. März 2002 15:29:35, du schriebst:

> NTFS already does on the fly compression.  No other utility is needed.

What about FAT drives?
UPX compresses binaries about 50%!  How much does NTFS on the fly
compression handles?

>> > What about reducing distributed exes size using UPX?
>> > Has it any side-kicks on cygwni binaries?
>> > Of course bz2 archives wouldn't change but installed size could.
>> 
>> No sideeffects;)
>> I'm using it since a year now.
>> Fetch my binary: http://familiehaase.de/cywgin/compression/upx/

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