Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 19:17:26 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] DJGPP port of binutils 2.12.1
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On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, JT Williams wrote:

> Impressive size difference; I'm always
> glad to recover a few MB of disk space :-/
> 
> % djzip --size 2.11.2-r1/bnu2112b.zip
> 	2.11.2-r1/bnu2112b.zip:   6088008                   65 files
> 
> % djzip --size 2.12.1/bnu2121b.zip
> 	2.12.1/bnu2121b.zip:   3794728                   73 files
> 
> I wondered if this might be due to stripped executables,

The executables are probably compressed with UPX.