Re: Missile Command and Other Submissions

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From: Robert Kieffer
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 23:12

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In article <1992Aug20.181303.19512@leland.Stanford.EDU>  
spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola) writes:
> Please oh please could anybody who submits apps to the  
> archives either provide separate source and binary-only  
> versions or include a README telling people what files they  
> can chuck if all they want is to run the thing.
> 
> I love all the apps that are posted, I'm real grateful to  
> the people who post them, but i can't afford the disk space  
> to keep all that source around that I will never use.

I too love the apps, but...

Strip the executables, too!  MCommand.tar.Z has contains a 500K binary  
that strips down to 50K.

Robert Kieffer
kieffer@spf.trw.com

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