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From: silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Crunching executables
Message-ID: <1990Dec22.204525.7384@xrtll.uucp>
Date: 22 Dec 90 20:45:25 GMT
References: <1747@winnie.fit.edu>
Reply-To: silver@xrtll.UUCP (Hi Ho Silver)
Organization: Not around here, pal!
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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) -
$I need to get FRACTINT.EXE to fit on one low density 5.25" floppy.

   I know of two, and there are probably others.  LZEXE is widely available;
check BBSs, perhaps Simtel20, and major shareware/PD distribution houses.
Phil Katz also has one, called PKLITE; like his other programs, it's shareware,
costs $47 to register, and reportedly works very well.  See the December 25
issue of PC Magazine for a quick review of PKLITE.

   Note that some programs can not be compressed; examples include those
which store overlays as part of the .EXE itself, since they then have to
go back to disk and load it in.
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