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From: templon@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (jeffrey templon)
Subject: Re: Is there a patch to astrip? (mac)
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In article <51619@nigel.ee.udel.edu> HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen) writes:
>anm is for ACK objects (*.o), not for binaries, nm is for binaries.
>astrip is for ACK objects (pointless, as I said), strip is for
>binaries.
>
>I use strip very often, so I am confused that it does not work for
>you. Perhaps your ls is in /bin, not /usr/bin -(.
>
No, this is just a representative case; it happens with other binaries
too.  I think if the file does not exist, one gets a 'cannot stat'
message.  Maybe I will try looking at it again, peek at the source.
Do you know where the binary format is documented (I could not find
the 'ld' source code.)

					Jeff