Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!csun!mx.csun.edu!mrs From: mrs@mx.csun.edu (Mike Stump) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: To strip, or not to strip... Message-ID: <1990Nov27.092900.558@csun.edu> Date: 27 Nov 90 09:29:00 GMT References: <15530011@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> Sender: news@csun.edu (News Administrator) Reply-To: mrs@secs.csun.edu (Mike Stump) Organization: School of Engineering and Computer Science, CSU Northridge Lines: 17 In article <15530011@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> sritacco@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Steve Ritacco) writes: >I've often asked myself these same questions, and this has brought to mind >one other. When will Ultrix have shared libraries? The most trivial >widget based application is bigger than a mega-byte. I wouldn't mind >getting back some disk space from all those fat executables. My little hello World example program is up over 5 megabytes now... I wish (really wish) I had shared libraries so that it could drop down to 60k again. Is DEC working on shared libraries, do they know ``we'' want them, do they understand the importance of them? -- If I can get mail to you via a legally registered fully qualified domain name, you could be on Saturn for all I care. -- quote by Bob Sutterfield