Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!gumby!umich!vela!rigel.acs.oakland.edu!w8sdz From: w8sdz@rigel.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: 400KB ka9q net.exe v.s. 182KB Summary: PKLite - an ms-dos executable file compressor Message-ID: <6397@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Date: 14 May 91 04:35:36 GMT References: Sender: news@vela.acs.oakland.edu Organization: The SIMTEL20 Archives Lines: 24 dpz@dimacs.rutgers.edu (David Paul Zimmerman) writes: >I had dreamt it would be simple... just get the sources, run them through >Turbo C, and voila -- my very own KA9Q net.exe. And so it was... but twice >the size of the one Phil distributes!! I've diddled some obvious compilation >and linking flags, to no avail. Anyone have any ideas? If this were Unix, >I'd think of doing a "strip net.exe", but there doesn't seem to be an analogy. No analogy, just a compression program for MS-DOS executables. It saves disk space but when the program is running it takes just as much space in memory as before. WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL [192.88.110.20] Directory PD1: Filename Type Length Date Description ============================================== PKLTE105.EXE B 50330 910424 PKLITE v1.05, compress EXE/COM files and run Keith - - - Keith Petersen Maintainer of SIMTEL20's MSDOS, MISC and CP/M archives - [192.88.110.20] Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil or w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu Uucp: uunet!umich!vela!w8sdz BITNET: w8sdz@OAKLAND