txt2dbf

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Walter Vaughan (Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:46:34 -0500):
[...]
> What's weird is that the SCO skunkware gcc makes a pretty big binary
> # l
> total 518
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     sys       117078 Mar 21 16:39 dbf2txt
[...]
> Yet FreeBSD makes a pretty tight binary
> # ll
> total 54
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root    wheel  13635 Mar 21 16:38 dbf2txt
[...]

Two words:  shared libraries.  ("file dbf2txt" will show you this.)

P.S.  The subject is "txt2dbf", not "dbf2txt", though that may be a typo.

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