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From: valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Executrix info wanted
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Date: 9 Jan 91 16:44:01 GMT
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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.
>.
>. (the rest of the ad/text deleted)
>.


Isn't this the same thing as PKLITE (shareware) and at least one other
(whose name escapes me) that is freeware?

Note: I've never any program like this.  Guess I never saw the need...
(I remember a discussion many years ago about wanting to get NETHACK to
fit on a 360K floppy [so that users with only a dual floppy could use it].
Same sort of problem...)