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From: gfm@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu (George)
Subject: Re: Mac's Powerpacker WANTED.
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Steve Krulewitz writes:


>(not sure of the average compression), but it is better than PowerPacker and
>Imploder, where they compress only executibles.  So all you lose is loading
>time.  Hope this helps...

This is not 100% true, PowerPacker will gladly compress data files, however you will usually need a customized program to read the data files (like PPmore)
These programs, as well as powerpacker.library are both easily obtainable, however so it is not unheard of to comprss unexecutables..