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- From: kieffer@spf.trw.com (Robert Kieffer)
- Subject: Re: Missile Command and Other Submissions
- Message-ID: <2A9426EC.49D4@deneva.sdd.trw.com>
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- Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA
- References: <1992Aug20.181303.19512@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 23:12:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug20.181303.19512@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola) writes:
- > Please oh please could anybody who submits apps to the
- > archives either provide separate source and binary-only
- > versions or include a README telling people what files they
- > can chuck if all they want is to run the thing.
- >
- > I love all the apps that are posted, I'm real grateful to
- > the people who post them, but i can't afford the disk space
- > to keep all that source around that I will never use.
-
- I too love the apps, but...
-
- Strip the executables, too! MCommand.tar.Z has contains a 500K binary
- that strips down to 50K.
-
- Robert Kieffer
- kieffer@spf.trw.com
-