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From: steven@ozonebbs.UUCP (Steven Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Executrix info wanted
Message-ID: <8TymV1w163w@ozonebbs.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 91 00:50:06 GMT
References: <1991Jan9.075800.1019@ducvax.auburn.edu>
Organization: The ()zone BBS, +1 408 223 1738
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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 
> 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 t
> 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 a
> 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.
> 
There is also a Shareware program by PKWare that does the same thing called 
PKLite.  Its probably on Simtel20 somewhere.


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