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From: wjin@cs.purdue.EDU (Woochang Jin)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: LZEXE - Is it too good to be true?
Message-ID: <10262@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: 7 Apr 90 23:16:12 GMT
References: <4953@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Organization: Purdue University
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In article <4953@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> pottera@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Alan T Potter) writes:
>I recently pulled down LZEXE91.(ARC? ZIP? - can't remember) from Simtel20.
>This package compresses .EXE files on disk, then automatically decompresses
>them when they are loaded into memory.  Having tried it on a couple of
>.EXE files, I am *very* impressed, and intend to start using it for all
>of my .EXEs.  
>However, I am still wary - you don't get something like this for nothing!
>Are there any 'gotchas' I should beware of?  Does anyone have any bad
>experiences of using the system?

I don't see anything wrong unless the .EXE file checks itself or other 
.EXE files while it is running. 

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W. Jin