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Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 21:56:45 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Fileutils 4.0 released
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Hello.

Tim Van Holder wrote:
> How about adding a recommendation (to the FAQ, or the KB, or
> wherever appropriate) that executables be compressed with UPX?
> This would have little ot no effect on the .zip file, but
> would significantly reduce the installed size of a package.
> Or is there a reason why this should not be done?

Can UPX-compressed programs with debug information be debugged using gdb?
Can you get a traceback using symify? Or handled using other binutils
programs? Does the UPX stub cause problems like PMODE/DJ does? If all
these work OK with UPX, then IMHO it sounds like a good plan to use UPX.

Bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe
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