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From: pgd@bbt.se
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: FAS2.07 and /xenix
Message-ID: <1991Jan12.112214.4138@bbt.se>
Date: 12 Jan 91 11:22:14 GMT
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In article <1991Jan11.073124.201@wcbcs.uucp> grwalter@wcbcs.uucp (Fred Walter) writes:

>I did a strip /xenix and it cut over 100K off its size, which shaves a few
>seconds off rebooting. Is there any reason to NOT have a stripped kernel
>binary ?

Yes many programs will not work.
Programs like ps, w, pstat, finger, etc. need the symbol table to be
able to do their work.