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From: "Josh Haglund" <lhaglund AT wiktel DOT com>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: is it possible to use strip option in call to compiler
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 01:33:15 -0500
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

I use all three: 

1. use as option
2. type "strip"
3. use upx

It's dosen't take a couple hours.
More like a couple of seconds.

8>)
Josh Haglund
lhaglund AT wiktel DOT com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Damian Yerrick" <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: is it possible to use strip option in call to compiler


> 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/
> 
> -- 
> Damian Yerrick
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