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6.2 Do Multi-Architecture Binaries take a lot of extra disk space?

The concept of NEXTSTEP binaries is different to other platforms. On NEXTSTEP only the real program is compiled and linked in a hardware specific manner. E.g. the GUI and the multilanguage support are usable on any platform running NEXTSTEP and will do so

under OPENSTEP. Therefore the real binary part is sometimes really small.

Anyway it might be a good choice to thin such a fat binary. NeXT ships tools for this purpose. Look at the manpages for lipo.

If an application wasn't installed using the standard NeXT tool Installer, it might also be a good choice to look into the application drawer and delete other languages supported but not used by the application. This additional data is found in the

different *.lproj subdirectories in the application's folder. To get there, activate the application's icon and select Open as directory from the Workspace's File menu item.

• (weiter mit 6.3 How difficult is it to recompile existing NeXT applications over to NEXTSTEP/Intel?)