Reducing size of Ada's EXE files

[kmccook@wrdis01.af.mil (Ken McCook)]

 I've heard people complain about the final size of EXEs produced after 
compiling and linking Ada code.  I saw something in a trade pub about
PKLITE from PKWARE.  PKLITE will compress the size of an EXE or COM file while
leaving it executable.  The file doesn't uncompress before execution.  When
you compress the file it remains compressed.  There are various "-" flags
that can be set as arguments when you kick it off that take care of things
like overlays.  I've used it and on a 368K EXE file it reduced the size to
129K.  There were no obvious differences, however, the file seems to run much
faster now.  I have no explanation for that effect although I have a couple of
suspicions.

Just thought I'd pass this along.

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