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From: "Josh Haglund" <lhaglund AT wiktel DOT com>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: is it possible to use strip option in call to compiler
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 03:12:20 -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/
> >
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