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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:44:11 +0300
From: Andris Pavenis <andris DOT pavenis AT iki DOT fi>
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of Binutils 2.17 uploaded
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Gordon DOT Schumacher AT seagate DOT com kirjoitti:
> 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.
> 

For GCC-4.1.2 packages it decreases size of ZIP files as UPX compresses 
better than zip.