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+ information regarding OS/2 compression added

Tomas Hajny 25 years ago
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@@ -540,6 +540,9 @@ RTL. See the <a href="http://www.freepascal.org/makecyc.html">make cycle faq</a>
     of the GNU binutils package.</li>
     of the GNU binutils package.</li>
 <lI>Under Dos(Go32V2) and windows targets you can use UPX to pack the .EXEs (just like e.g. pklite).
 <lI>Under Dos(Go32V2) and windows targets you can use UPX to pack the .EXEs (just like e.g. pklite).
     The architecture of linux doesn't allow binary packing.</li>
     The architecture of linux doesn't allow binary packing.</li>
+<lI>You can use LXLITE for packing EMX binaries, but you won't be able to run
+    them under DOS any more then. It might even not be possible to use them
+    on lower OS/2 versions (like 2.x) depending on chosen type of compression.</li>
 <li>Turning on optimalisations, both for supplied packages (RTL,API,FV,FCL) as for
 <li>Turning on optimalisations, both for supplied packages (RTL,API,FV,FCL) as for
     your own code, will also decrease code-size. </li>
     your own code, will also decrease code-size. </li>
 </ol>
 </ol>

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     3. Under Dos(Go32V2) and windows targets you can use UPX to pack the
     3. Under Dos(Go32V2) and windows targets you can use UPX to pack the
        .EXEs (just like e.g. pklite). The architecture of linux doesn't
        .EXEs (just like e.g. pklite). The architecture of linux doesn't
        allow binary packing.
        allow binary packing.
-    4. Turning on optimalisations, both for supplied packages
+    4. You can use LXLITE for packing EMX binaries, but you won't be able
+       to run them under DOS any more then. It might even not be possible
+       to use them on lower OS/2 versions (like 2.x) depending on chosen
+       type of compression.
+    5. Turning on optimalisations, both for supplied packages
        (RTL,API,FV,FCL) as for your own code, will also decrease
        (RTL,API,FV,FCL) as for your own code, will also decrease
        code-size.
        code-size.