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From: meulenbr@cstw01.prl.philips.nl (Frans Meulenbroeks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: packer.arc
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Date: 19 Jul 89 09:14:51 GMT
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Hi!

I fetched packer.arc from the binaries group, and I am impressed.
Can someone shed a light on how this is achieved? Is this a very small
compression program which decompresses the remainder of the file??

I noticed that when packing an already packed file, the executable
increases with 220 bytes. Could this be the size of the decompressor??

I also noticed that the packer itself was not packed. Curious isn't it?

I found that pack could not handle every program.
I got a message saying there was an error in the header when trying to
pack hdx.prg. Somebody any idea what this program has what other programs
don't have??
Frans Meulenbroeks        (meulenbr@cst.prl.philips.nl)
	Centre for Software Technology
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