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Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb at nyckelpiga dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 15:31:05 +0100
- Subject: Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
- References: <3C8FC440.A05EA121@lapo.it><5040918077.20020313223834@familiehaase.de> <3C909B8C.95763E0C@yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb at nyckelpiga dot de>
Earnie,
Donnerstag, 14. März 2002 15:29:35, du schriebst:
> NTFS already does on the fly compression. No other utility is needed.
What about FAT drives?
UPX compresses binaries about 50%! How much does NTFS on the fly
compression handles?
>> > What about reducing distributed exes size using UPX?
>> > Has it any side-kicks on cygwni binaries?
>> > Of course bz2 archives wouldn't change but installed size could.
>>
>> No sideeffects;)
>> I'm using it since a year now.
>> Fetch my binary: http://familiehaase.de/cywgin/compression/upx/
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