From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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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 20:04:21 -0500, "Josh Haglund"
<lhaglund AT wiktel DOT com> wrote:

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

I just skip the `strip' step and head straight into the UPX packer.
It automatically strips debugging symbols from the executable,
compresses the rest, and adds an unpacker stub to the beginning.
  http://upx.tsx.org/

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