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From: spam@IASTATE.EDU (Begley Michael L)
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Date: 16 Jan 91 02:48:49 GMT
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Here's a question that a few people have answered "That's impossible".
It probably is, but it seems that *philosophically* it should be
possible...

What I'd like to do is execute a stream.  The specific application I
have in mind is to compress all my executables, then execute them from
a simple shell script. Something like:

   uncompress -c microemacs|execute   /* uncompress microemacs.Z     */
                                      /* into a stream, and execute  */

would automagically run a compressed copy of Microemacs.  I know that
something like:

   uncompress microemacs  >temp       /*uncompress microemacs.Z into
file temp */
   temp                               /*run the uncompressed version */
   rm temp                            /*and remove the file  */

but that seems inelegant; kludgy, almost VMS-like!

I've been told that it can't be done because of swapping...
Can anyone help?

-mike begley
spam@iastate.edu