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From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Results with packed programs?
Summary: Has anyone had trouble with them?
Keywords: packer packer2 experiences
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.145158.10505@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 25 Jan 91 14:51:58 GMT
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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A year of so back, there were some programs posted (3 of them, I think) which
compressed executable files.  The word at the time was that while there were
some cases in which they wouldn't work at all, they wouldn't 'half-work'.  In
other words, if a program one of them had been applied to ran for a while,
that almost guaranteed that it would run the same as the original version.

Has anyone noted a counter-example?  If a program is compressed and runs under
(say) TOS 1.2, can it be counted on to run normally under TOS 1.0 and Rainbow
TOS?  How much confidence should we have in this process?

                                   Steve         saj@chinet.chi.il.us