Re: Reducing EXE Size ?

From: Bruce Roberts (ber_at_attcanada.net)
Date: 10/09/03


Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 13:59:09 -0400


"Tim Horn" <tim@umbani.com> wrote in message
news:3f856378@newsgroups.borland.com...
> I have written a application but the exe is 10 Meg !

Less than 0.02% of a current machine's disk.

> I remember there is somewhere i can go which unloads unwanted components
etc
> but can't remember
> where to do this - Any help would be appreciated.

I doubt that such a tool is going to save you a significant amount of space.
If you are concerned about transport simply compress the file. Otherwise I'd
suggest that you not waste time worrying about it.



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