diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 668d08a..9961b7d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -119,3 +119,7 @@ dist
 
 # my additions
 *~
+trimspNL
+resources/bin/trimspNL
+fortran/trimspNL
+fortran/trimspNL-static
diff --git a/resources/bin/trimspNL b/resources/bin/trimspNL
deleted file mode 100755
index 738506a..0000000
Binary files a/resources/bin/trimspNL and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/trimspNL b/trimspNL
deleted file mode 120000
index f62d6c9..0000000
--- a/trimspNL
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-resources/bin/trimspNL
\ No newline at end of file