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From: GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (Ives Aerts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: PowerPacker doesn't crunch commands
Message-ID: <91175.174130GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
Date: 24 Jun 91 17:39:30 GMT
References: <57049@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
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In article <57049@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, GELSON%SBU.UFRGS.ANRS.BR@uicvm.uic.edu
(Gelson Dias Santos) says:
>
> IN%"amiga-introduction-relay@udel.edu",IN%"amiga-applications-relay@udel.edu"
>
>   I have been playing a bit with the Shareware program PowerPacker 2.3b, by
>Nico Francois, and I have some doubts about it's resourses. I'm trying to
>crunch the commands in c: directory, but some of them seems to don't work
>after
>crunching.

Doesn't work 'cos those are really old programs written in BCPL.
These expect some magic when started. PowerPacker 3.0 (the commercial
one) fixes this, you can select a menu option 'bcpl header' which
works fine with these programs. The other features are well worth
the little amount of money. (3.0 is *MUCH* faster to mention one
thing)

>   While I'm here; is possible to crunch a DATA file and it auto-decrunch when
>used? Maybe with another cruncher?

Yes and no, the trouble is that you don't know how the program loads
its data. If the program uses loadseg or asks you for a filename then
this is possible (but not yet publicly available 8^) For text and
graphics you can use PPMore or PPShow.

>
>* Gelson Dias Santos  *  Bitnet/Internet: GELSON@SBU.UFRGS.ANRS.BR  *
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