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- From: "Guus Leeuw jr." <guusl@eiffel.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Q: Size of a program
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 11:36:58 -0800
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- Artur Wojdat wrote:
- >
- [snip snip]
- > We have some limitations on our system and I am not able to have
- > all my programs compiled. So, is there a way to make the executables
- > shrink in size ?? Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated
-
- Depends on the system you're using. With Unix machines you can use `strip'. I
- don't know if there is such a thing for DOS boxes, though.
-
- Anyways, this is of course way off topic and you should go to a system specific
- group instead.
-
- Hope this helps,
- Guus
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