Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!helios!photon!kurt From: kurt@photon.tamu.EDU (Kurt Freiberger) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: 400KB ka9q net.exe v.s. 182KB Message-ID: <16203@helios.TAMU.EDU> Date: 14 May 91 18:49:52 GMT References: Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Reply-To: kurt@photon.tamu.EDU (Kurt Freiberger) Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University Lines: 20 In article , dpz@dimacs.rutgers.edu (David Paul Zimmerman) writes: |> I had dreamt it would be simple... just get the sources, run them through |> Turbo C, and voila -- my very own KA9Q net.exe. And so it was... but twice |> the size of the one Phil distributes!! I've diddled some obvious compilation |> and linking flags, to no avail. Anyone have any ideas? If this were Unix, |> I'd think of doing a "strip net.exe", but there doesn't seem to be an analogy. |> |> David |> -- |> David Paul Zimmerman dpz@dimacs.rutgers.edu |> Systems Programmer rutgers!dimacs.rutgers.edu!dpz |> Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) Phil uses PKLITE which compresses the program and attaches a header that decompresses it into memory at runtime. kurt -- Kurt Freiberger, wb5bbw kurt@cs.tamu.edu 409/847-8706 Dept. of Computer Science, Texas A&M University DoD #264 *** Not an official document of Texas A&M University ***