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Subject: Re: Wow!

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 16:52:02 04/06/00

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On April 06, 2000 at 13:36:26, Pete Galati wrote:

>On April 06, 2000 at 13:17:10, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On April 06, 2000 at 10:07:08, Pete Galati wrote:
>>
>>>On April 06, 2000 at 07:23:15, Jari Huikari wrote:
>>>
>>>>On April 06, 2000 at 05:40:23, Peter McKenzie wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>how small is the executable file?
>>>>
>>>>I got 36949 bytes.
>>>>
>>>>(And the source file is 3320 bytes including comments.)
>>>>
>>>>					Jari
>>>
>>>With djgpp I got much bigger, 108122, but I think djgpp tends to make rather big
>>>sized exe files.
>>>
>>>Pete
>>
>>
>>You should remove the debug code from the EXE file with the following command:
>>
>>  strip oxchess.exe
>>
>>DJGPP executables are not bigger than what you get with other compilers.
>>
>>
>>    Christophe
>
>Thanks Christophe, you just pointed to another giant hole in my know-how, now
>it's down to 58,880.  I never knew about "strip".
>
>Pete

I don't trust this command. On a different file, that was 37.8Kb, the command
strip resulted in a new file size of 39.9KB. It got _bigger_.



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