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From: eonu24@castle.ed.ac.uk (I Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Executable compressor
Summary: Looking for a run from compressed executor for unix
Message-ID: <10591@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 27 May 91 22:39:25 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Edinburgh University
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In msdos there is a utility (whose name escapes me at the moment) that allows
you to compress executables (.exe's I mean) into a format that allows them to
be run from their compressed state. As far as i know the compressor adds a
little bit of code to the start of the compressed file to handle the
decompression and running and it is neat and fast. Does such a beast exist for
unix?

Example:

program.exe ----> compprogram.exe (smaller than original)
compprogram.exe - takes slightly longer than its uncompressed rival to start up
                  but after that there is no noticeable difference with most
                  programs

Thanks in advance,

Iain

p.s. Hardware is a Sequent i386 based platform running BSD 4.2 and SysV.