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Re: reduce size of Cygwin1.dll - How?


On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 04:19:32AM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, bill wrote:
> >
> > > I know this question has been asked before because I read the posts
> > > from a google on it. Use strip on it says. But it doesn't work for
> > > me. What am I doing wrong ?
> >
> > You should drop a hippo on it -- that should compress it quite nicely.
>
> Hippos don't compress, they bzip2.

Anyone with a hippo dropped on him will probably curse first, then most
likely have a period of unconsciousness, followed by a deep sleep.
So, it goes like this:

cygwin1.dll -> cygwin1.dll.$%^&@ -> cygwin1.dll.*** -> cygwin1.dll.Z

That looks like compress to me. :-)
	Igor
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