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From: swanger@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Executrix info wanted
Message-ID: <1991Jan9.075800.1019@ducvax.auburn.edu>
Date: 9 Jan 91 13:58:00 GMT
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I recently received an ad from Knowledge Dynamics Corporation about a product
of theirs named Executrix.  The following is an excerpt from the ad:

Executrix supposedly compresses .EXE files into a format that typically takes
30% less disk space, but the file remains directly executable from DOS.  It
compresses your file and then prepends an 800 byte decompressor to the front of
the compressed data.  When you execute the program, the decompressor is
triggered and loaded into memory.  It then dynamically relocates into high
memory, loads, decompress, and executes your program.
.
. (the rest of the ad deleted)
.

Has anyone out there used this program?  I might have a use for it soon if I
knew it worked.  I called the company and they told me that the loading and
decompression was very fast and was usually faster than loading and running the
original, uncompressed program (I am a little skeptical).

I have written a program using Microsoft C 6.0 that compiles and links to an
.EXE file that is around 400k.  I want to be able to fit this program, in
runnable form, on a 360k floppy.  I've tried several different optimization
options on the compiler.  I've tried a few of the linker options that shrink
the .EXE file.  I've used EXEPACK on the .EXE file.  400k is about as small as
I can get it without (shudder) rewriting the source!  Before I do something
that crazy, I would like to investigate the Executrix option.  So if you have
used this program, please post to the net, or send me mail.  They want $69.95
for Executrix, so I want to be positive that it works.

Thanks for any help you can give.

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