Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!rc6.urc.tue.nl!rw7.urc.tue.nl!rcpt From: rcpt@rw7.urc.tue.nl (Piet Tutelaers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Why unstripped DEC commands? Message-ID: <143@rc6.urc.tue.nl> Date: 18 Oct 90 15:33:27 GMT Sender: News Administration Reply-To: rcpt@urc.tue.nl Lines: 18 There are a lot of ULTRIX commands that are not stripped. On our Ultrix 3.1 DECstations we have for example: /usr/bin/dxterm: mipsel demand paged setuid executable not stripped - version 1. 31 -rwsr-xr-x 5 root 5080168 Nov 16 1989 /usr/bin/dxterm If I strip this command I get a size of: -rwxr-xr-x 1 rcpt 2727936 Oct 18 12:04 /rc6u1/rcpt/dxterm Can somebody explain why this, and other commands, are NOT stripped. Is this to sell more disks? Thanks, Piet Tutelaers uucp: rcpt@urc.tue.nl | Piet Tutelaers Room RC 1.82 bitnet: rcpt@heithe5.BITNET | Eindhoven University of Technology phone: +31 (0)40 474541 | P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, NL