From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: UPX
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On Tue, 23 May 2000 22:42:33 GMT, "AndrewJ" <luminous-is AT home DOT com>
wrote:

>Compressing a file doesn't speed it up

Unless you're running it off a floppy or slow CD-ROM.

>it actually slows it down (at startup), although with UPX it's
>not too bad, since UPX's decompression speed is fairly quick.

Quicker than the transfer rate of certain slow media, in fact.

>To make it smaller, did you 'strip' the final executable?
>This assumes, of course, that you built it yourself with DJGPP.

UPX automatically strips it.

>Oh, and if you do a lot of work in a DOS box, you might do well to
>put UPX in the /WINDOWS/COMMAND or %DJDIR%/BIN directories.
>Drag 'n drop... phegh, I spit at drag 'n drop.  <g>

mv.exe from fileutils

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