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From: laird@think.com (Laird Popkin)
Subject: Re: Mac's Powerpacker WANTED.
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.233543.8674@Think.COM>
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References: <1991Apr1.222606.2530@ucselx.sdsu.edu> <1229@teslab.lab.OZ>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 91 23:35:43 GMT

In article <1229@teslab.lab.OZ> andrew@teslab.lab.oz.au (Andrew Phillips) writes:
>In article <1991Apr1.222606.2530@ucselx.sdsu.edu> maxc1553@ucselx.sdsu.edu (InnerTangent - human1) writes:
>>[wants the Mac equivalent of PwoerPacker]
>
>I haven't heard of a Mac program to compress executables and then
>uncompress them on-the-fly but there is one to uncompress/compress
>data files on-the-fly.  It is a CDEV called AutoSqueeze and was
>posted to comp.binaries.mac in Feb.  It automatically expands data
>files when they are used and compresses them again when you're finished.
>
>This would not be as much use as a PowerPacker type program to me as
>I don't have that many data files compared to executables but it
>might be of use to you.
>
>There are also, of course, lots of manual compressors like Stuffit etc.

As the office mate of the guy who wrote AutoSqueeze, I have to point out
that AutoSqueeze will decompress and recompress executable files just as it
will data files -- it doesn't care what is in the files.  So you can double
click on a compressed application and it will decompress and then launch.
It's a bit slow, of course. :^)

- Laird Popkin