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From: templon@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (jeffrey templon)
Subject: Is there a patch to astrip? (mac)
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Date: Sat, 20 Apr 91 20:00:03 GMT
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I am trying to compress some of my newly-compiled executables (thanks,
Christoph!) by stripping them. Astrip appears to be the tool for this
job (strip appears to assume a PC machine).  However it does not work.
I was giving a 'bad format' message, which I tracked to a wrong value
of the 'magic number' in an include file!!  However it still does not
work now, it bombs with a read error.  I think the problem is that it
is expecting, either through info in the "out.h" file or thru the call
to 'getofmt', an executable format different from what it sees.

What needs to be done to get this to working?  Why is there an incorrect
header file in the PH distribution?  Is anybody else having this
problem, or solved it?

					jt
