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Subject: Re: LZE
Keywords: LZE
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Date: 28 Jun 90 15:47:50 GMT
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brian@leah.Albany.Edu (Brian King) writes:

] I was just reading in the June 25, 1990 issue of INFOWORLD about a program 
] called LZE. It supposedly takes empty space out of EXE and COM files. It also
] states that execution speeds can nearly double at times. Has anyone used this?
] Does it really work? Has it meesed up any of your files? Are there any FTP
] sites that I can obtain this from? Thanks for any help.

] P.S. The article was on page 90. 

Try looking for LZEXE.EXE and LZSHELL.EXE (?) Me thinks that someone
on a BBS is being stupid and renaming things.  Or else Cringely is a
little misinformed (by our standards...:-O:-O

Yes they do work, unless of course you are able to move your operating
system into high memory in which case all LZEXE-d executables will
fail miserably.  The workaround is to load something into the first
segment, so that the LZEXE decompression code finds segment 0 as a
valid end of decompression indicator, and not right off the bat. 

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