Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:4955 comp.os.msdos.misc:849 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!hoss!hoss.unl.edu!ho From: ho@hoss.unl.edu (Tiny Bubbles...) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Crunching FRACTINT: a losing battle Message-ID: <1990Dec22.204844.16050@hoss.unl.edu> Date: 22 Dec 90 20:48:44 GMT Sender: news@hoss.unl.edu (Network News Administer) Organization: Daily Nebraskan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lines: 29 Followups-To: comp.os.msdos.misc In tony@mantis.co.uk (Tony Lezard) writes: >mark@zach.fit.edu ( Mark R. Craig) writes: >> I need to get FRACTINT.EXE to fit on one low density 5.25" floppy. >As has already been pointed out, LZEXE is the program to do this. >Unfortunately, FRACTINT (version 14) appears to have already been >compressed by LZEXE (well, my copy anyway) and so of course no >further compression attempts will reduce it noticably below 168k. More bad news for Mark -- version 15 of FractINT uses overlays, which prevents it from being compresses by LZEXE, PKLITE or (I suspect) any other .EXE compressor. The executable alone no longer fits on a 360K floppy, much less with DOS and COMMAND.COM. This doesn't disturb *me* too greatly, because I have a hard drive -- but it would be a pain in the @$$ for those without hard drives. Too bad, because v15 has a much nicer interface. (More accurately, v15 HAS a user interface.) [Followups directed to comp.os.msdos.misc; it was my understanding that this group isn't supposed to exist.] -- ... Michael Ho, University of Nebraska Internet: ho@hoss.unl.edu | "Mine... is the last voice that you will ever hear." Disclaimer: I ain't CRC, I ain't the DN, and they ain't me. What a relief.