On 14/10/2017 22:06, jr wrote:
> hi,
> 
> On 14/10/2017 18:32, Stephen wrote:
>> Just for practice I compiled nocomment. It runs in a DOS box BTW
> 
> thanks.
> 
> fwiw, I had a look at the zip and am a bit perplexed by the size of
> executable.  until I read your "drat!" follow-up (:-)) I'd thought that
> nocomment.exe had not been compiled for dynamic linking; 164K vs 15K on
> my machine, nearly 11 times larger.
> 
> I think cygwin has strip(1) installed, you can run
> 
>    $ strip -s nocomment.exe
> 
> without impairing functionality, and hopefully the respective sizes will
> compare better.  (compiling w/out optimisation options too would leave
> it larger)
> 

I'll give that a try later. <- When he is sober. </Stephen's better self>

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Regards
     Stephen

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