Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: LZEXE - Is it too good to be true? Message-ID: Date: 10 Apr 90 02:41:34 GMT References: <4953@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <10262@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <9770@yunexus.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 21 In-reply-to: rreiner@yunexus.UUCP's message of 8 Apr 90 13:11:48 GMT In article <9770@yunexus.UUCP> rreiner@yunexus.UUCP (Richard Reiner) writes: 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 wouldn't say "greatly increased". In fact, I found that tc loaded at the same speed straight off my hard disk, compressed or not. Of course, out of the disk cache, uncompressed was faster. Equally obvious, compressed was faster off the floppy... -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667 Violence never solves problems, it just changes them into more subtle problems