On Jun 17, 2009, at 6:00 AM, Nestamicky wrote:
> > On Jun 16, 2009, at 8:31 PM, Dan wrote: > >> Note that once you've hit the system and apps with this tool, they >> are forever "damaged". > > This is a very very very important thing to know about Monolingual. > If you're installing your OS with the disk, why can't people just > simply use the advance install option and uncheck languages they > don't need and printers they don't have? That seems simple to me. So long as you know which button to click and when. > Dan, there was Monolingial and another app mentioned in this > thread....is that other one...name escapes..."damage" files as well? The other one was 'Delocalizer' and it does not do anything about alternate architectures. Truthfully, stripping fat binaries never gains you a whole lot of free space, because the vast bulk of most applications lies in the resources and help files. For example: TextEdit is 22.1 MB in size. The actual textEdit compiled binary part, which includes both PPC and X86 code? 264K. Monolingual will strip the extra language resources out of the app, too, I think, which will result in a lot of savings. Manually stripping the extra language resources from TextEdit cut it down to 1.9 mb. No need to screw up the binaries as well. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
