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Andris Pavenis <andris DOT pavenis AT iki DOT fi> wrote on 03/26/2007 11:10:20 PM:

# Additionally You may decide compress them with UPX
# (http://upx.sourceforge.net).
#
# UPX versions 1.2-X had problems with DJGPP, but that is no more so for
# 2.0.X.

I've been considering that - I can certainly do that, I didn't know
if that was a good idea or not.  It probably won't reduce the size of
the ZIP much, but it would reduce the size on disk.

We use UPX pretty heavily because we need some of our stuff to fix onto
floppy.