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From: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Executrix info wanted
Message-ID: <222@nazgul.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 91 18:23:19 GMT
References: <4383@mindlink.UUCP>
Reply-To: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Organization: Zortech, Seattle
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In article <4383@mindlink.UUCP> a563@mindlink.UUCP (Dave Kirsch) writes:
/> kgowen@cie.uoregon.edu writes:
/> One last note, I would not recommend using one [LZEXE, PKLITE, etc] of these
/> compressors if your program uses overlays.
/Actually, you can use it if you are using Microsoft Link style overlays.  You
/can't compress the overlays, but you can compress the root EXE code.  What's
/involved is after you link your application with MS link using overlays, you
/have to run a program to split the root code and the overlays into seperate
/files, then run something like LZEXE on the root code, then glue all the
/overlays back together.
/I do this on my projects that contain overlays without any problems, it might
/even work on other overlay linkers such as Plink and RTlink, but I can't be
/sure.

I know it should will work on Zortech's virtual overlay system, because the overlay
sections are disguised to look like Microsoft overlays. This was deliberate
so file compressors and other EXE file modification programs would leave
the VCM overlays alone.