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From: rreiner@yunexus.UUCP (Richard Reiner)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: LZEXE - Is it too good to be true?
Message-ID: <9770@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 90 13:11:48 GMT
References: <4953@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <10262@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Organization: York U. Computing Services
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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.
>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?

It's just the usual case: you're trading speed for space.  The only
'gotcha', other than the incompatibility with software that keeps
overlays in the .exe file, is greatly increased startup time.  I'd
only reccomend this solution (and the other more elegant variants,
like Disk Doubler software, which compresses *all* files on the disk,
and hooks the disk read services to uncompress on demand) if you have
more cpu speed than disk space -- if you're running a 20M disk on a
386/33, for instance.

--richard