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Re: reduce size of Cygwin1.dll - How?

On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 04:19:32AM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, bill wrote:
> 
> > I know this question has been asked before because I read the posts from
> > a google on it. Use strip on it says. But it doesn't work for me. What
> > am I doing wrong ?
> 
> You should drop a hippo on it -- that should compress it quite nicely.

$ cygcheck -c compress
Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version        Status

Hippos don't compress, they bzip2.
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