Subject: Installing 3.93 for Linux

From: Steve Cabito <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 15:57:37 -0600

I'd like to upgrade 3.90, so I grabbed 3.93 (pine-bin.linux) and 
couldn't help noticing that it's a 3.8MB executable. I'm not going to 
fire up this program without knowing what it's going to do. Is it a 
self-install? Anyone know? (I'm using Linux 1.2.13.)

Thanks!

-Steve

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From: Richard Gering <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 21:25:16 +0100 (WET)

> self-install? Anyone know? (I'm using Linux 1.2.13.)

Let's see... On my Linux 1.2.13 system the Pine executable I just built
(bin/pine) is sized 5136382 bytes. That's 4.89Mb. I win! :-) 

I don't know if the pine-bin.linux you downloaded is self extracting or
not (where did you get it from?), but it could very well just be a pine
binary with some debug symbol leftovers. Try to run "strip" on it and see
if it shrinks. Over here, this will reduce the size of the binary to 1.6Mb. 

Regards,

- Richard.

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From: [email-masked] (Bill D)
Date: 8 Jun 1996 02:49:02 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> in
newsgroup comp.mail.pine, Richard Gering ([email-masked]) wrote: 

: On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Steve Cabito wrote:

: > I grabbed 3.93 (pine-bin.linux) and 
: > couldn't help noticing that it's a 3.8MB executable. 

: it could very well just be a pine
: binary with some debug symbol leftovers. Try to run "strip" on it and see
: if it shrinks. Over here, this will reduce the size of the binary to 1.6Mb. 

I started out with a pine 3.93 binary that was about 3.8M and it stripped
down just as you describe.

Bill

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From: Andreas Muck <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 23:16:47 +0200

> self-install? Anyone know? (I'm using Linux 1.2.13.)

No, it is the actual program. 
$ ll `which pine`
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root      3868281 Apr 21 02:20 /usr/bin/pine*

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From: Ezra Van Everbroeck <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 19:03:24 +0200

On 8 Jun 1996, Bill D wrote:

> : it could very well just be a pine binary with some debug symbol
> : leftovers. Try to run "strip" on it and see if it shrinks. Over here,
> : this will reduce the size of the binary to 1.6Mb.
> 
> I started out with a pine 3.93 binary that was about 3.8M and it
> stripped down just as you describe.

You can get even smaller binaries by compiling the source yourself:

| onyx:/usr/local/bin$uname -a
| Linux onyx 1.2.13 #23 Sun Mar 24 20:49:45 GMT+0100 1996 i586
| 
| onyx:/usr/local/bin$l pine
| -rwxr-xr-x   1 ezra     admin     1159172 Apr 13 12:49 pine*

>From pine/makefile.lnx :

| OPTIMIZE=    -O2 -s
| PROFILE=     # -pg
| DEBUG=       #-g -DDEBUG

Not that it matters that much any more with the current prices of hard
disks.

Cheers,

Ezra

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From: [email-masked] (Bill D)
Date: 8 Jun 1996 02:49:02 GMT

Bill