Why are there both stripped and unstripped kernel images?

[Russell A. Heise]

 rds95 at leah.Albany.Edu (Robert Seals) writes:

 > AIX 3.1, real live distribution.
 >
 > Why is there both a /unix and a /unix.strip ? Can I get rid of
 > one of `em?

 Yes, they are the same executable. It's just that .strip has had all the
 symbols stripped out.  No, I would not recommend removing either.

Russ Heise, AIX Technical Support, IBM