Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 00:03:29 -0600 (CST)
From: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
To: David May <dmay AT tvi DOT cc DOT nm DOT us>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Upgrading DJGPP installations
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On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, David May wrote:
> > > You can also zip up the bin directory (by far the most severe virtual
> > Wait a minute, I thought that's where GCC and associates hung out?

Now I Am Confused...

> I'm hoping this was some irony on the author's part.  However, you 
> **can** use djg to compress every .exe file in the bin directory, 
> which will save you some space.  The "symbolic links" won't be 
> compressed, and as far as I know, the only program that doesn't run 
> well compressed is gzip.  I just did a
>   djp *.exe
> in the bin directory and then reinstalled gzip.  Works for me :-)

Not having done it, I'm guessing.

You end up creating compressed images of the files contained therein.
When you 'run' a program, it gets uncompressed 'on the fly'?