From:	DigitalFx <digitalfx AT sprynet DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: bloated exe files
Date:	Mon, 01 Sep 1997 21:21:58 -0400
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> My actual project (which is very small) has some c files. Total : 
> If I compile without any switches I get a 130Kb exe. With the '-s' 
> get a 55kb exe.
> Then, compressing it with djp the final result is a 33kb exe, only 8kb 
> than the source.

Quake is around 2 megs of source, and ends up becoming a 400k or so EXE.

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