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From: cur022%cluster@ukc.ac.uk (Bob Eager)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Crunching executables
Message-ID: <21528.2770cab7@cluster@ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 20 Dec 90 14:29:11 GMT
References: <1747@winnie.fit.edu> <1990Dec20.094412.14679@uwasa.fi>
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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In article <1990Dec20.094412.14679@uwasa.fi>, ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
> In article <1747@winnie.fit.edu> mark@zach.fit.edu ( Mark R. Craig) writes:
>>There is a program for the Amiga computer called PowerPacker that compresses
>>executables in such a way that when you execute the resulting PowerPacked
>>file, it uncompresses the executable TO MEMORY (not disk) and runs it.
>>I was wondering if such a program exists for IBM (Public Domain prefered) -
> :
> 
> Yes, it is called LZEXE.  Available as /pc/pd2/lzexe91.zip by
> anonymous ftp from uwasa.fi archives, Vaasa, Finland.

There is also a PKWare version called PKLITE, which is around in various
places.
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