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Date:	Fri, 15 Mar 2002 13:48:13 +0100
From:	Lapo Luchini <lapo AT lapo DOT it>
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Subject:	Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX
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> Uhmm, UPX should be part of the distribution first, as a maintained
> pacakge, before folk start packing distributed binaries with it. Do we
> have a volunteer to maintain UPX?

UPX is quite cross-platform: you can use win32 version to package lonux
a.out such as linux verison to package win32 PE.
Moreover an UPX-compressed EXE is completely self-sufficient from UPX
itself, has no memory overhead and decompresses very very fast (10Mb/sec
on the author's Pentium133 as upx.sourceforge.net says).
But if a cygwin native version is needed nonetheless I could volunteer to
package it.

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Lapo 'Raist' Luchini
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