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From: silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: "Re:Virtual Memory on DOS"
Summary: Survey of EXE/COM compressors
Message-ID: <1990Oct12.012610.21623@xrtll.uucp>
Date: 12 Oct 90 01:26:10 GMT
References: <1990Oct10.232717.17122@agora.uucp>
Reply-To: silver@xrtll.UUCP (Hi Ho Silver)
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In article <1990Oct10.232717.17122@agora.uucp> shivap@agora.uucp (Shivaprasad Sadashivaiah) writes:
$I couldn't find any information on RTlink+ before I purchase. I used it for
$two days and reduced one of our program's size from 475K to 275K. That is
$really a very great reduction in program size. I have not tested all the
$capabilities of my program, but, the basic things works fine. 

   There are also programs available which compress EXE and COM files using
the standard LZW method but leave them executable (i.e. when you load the
file in, some code added by the compressor will transparently uncompress
the file so the image in memory is identical, but the executable takes
less space on the disk).  I've seen references to one or two of these in
the catalogs of shareware/PD houses, and also PKWare has one that was in
beta testing a few months ago.

   If you have any experience with such programs, please SEND ME EMAIL
describing your experiences.  Any info would be appreciated.  I'll chew
on the information and post some form of summary to the net in a couple of
weeks.
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