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From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Executrix info wanted
Message-ID: <5207@bwdls58.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 91 00:18:24 GMT
References: <1991Jan9.075800.1019@ducvax.auburn.edu>
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In article <1991Jan9.075800.1019@ducvax.auburn.edu> swanger@ducvax.auburn.edu writes:
<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.

Ouch.  800 bytes.  Forget it.

Get LZEXE or PKLITE from Simtel20.. much cheaper even with the shareware
registration fee, and also MUCH better products.  More like 50-70% compression
and less than a couple hundred bytes for the decompression logic.

Where have you been for the past year, anyway ?     :)
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