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- From: scottm@uis.com (Scott Miller)
- Subject: Re: Q: Size of a program
- Message-ID: <Doy1p7.5Kw@uis.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 20:46:18 GMT
- References: <315821A7.3C8E@lava.weeg.uiowa.edu>
- Organization: Unix Integration Services
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- Artur Wojdat <awojdat@lava.weeg.uiowa.edu> writes:
- >
- >Hello everybody,
- > I have bunch of programs designed to query Sybase and print the
- >results. Nothing special about that but the source code for most of them
- >takes up about 2K of disk space and compiled version ... over 600K !!!
- > 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
- > Art ..
-
- You don't mention what kind of system this is. If it is a Unix
- system, you should check out the 'strip' utility. Strip will work
- to reduce the size of virtually any executable. Be sure and RTFM first.
-
- Scott Miller
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