Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!qucdn!gilla Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: LZEXE - Is it too good to be true? Date: Sunday, 8 Apr 1990 13:24:27 EDT From: "Arnold G. Gill" Message-ID: <90098.132427GILLA@QUCDN.BITNET> References: <8847@lindy.Stanford.EDU> In article <8847@lindy.Stanford.EDU>, LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton) says: > >In article <23005@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, >sbnicol@rose.waterloo.edu (Scott Nicol) writes: >>file). Also, there is an UNLZEXE program, which should be able to >>recover the original from the compressed program. >> >I had problems using UNLZEXE on MS-KERMIT 3.00 which I had >compressed using LZEXE .90 (NOT .91). It reported everything being >OK, and knew which compressor version I had used, but the newly >decompressed program did not work. I haven't had this with any >programs compressed with the new version of LZEXE, and I use this >for a lot of my large .EXE files. It seems great. Now that people have mentioned it, I always wondered if one could reverse the LZEXE process. Where does one get UNLZEXE? I especially liked the change to MS-Kermit - from 131000 to 75000 bytes, and it still works as far as I can tell. ------- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Arnold Gill | | | Queen's University at Kingston | If I hadn't wanted it heard, | | BITNET : gilla@qucdn | I wouldn't have said it. | | X-400 : Arnold.Gill@QueensU.CA | | | INTERNET : gilla@qucdn.queensu.ca | | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-