Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!qucdn!leek Organization: Queen's University at Kingston Date: Monday, 24 Jun 1991 21:31:22 EDT From: Message-ID: <91175.213122LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications Subject: Re: PowerPacker doesn't crunch commands References: <57049@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <91175.174130GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be> In article <91175.174130GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>, GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (Ives Aerts) says: > >In article <57049@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, GELSON%SBU.UFRGS.ANRS.BR@uicvm.uic.edu >(Gelson Dias Santos) says: > >> 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. > That's why it would be nice to have a compress device or file system. With things like lh.library and MSH: the MSDOS file system code flowing around code, someone should have came up with one by now... One advantage with such a file system is that all data and executable files can be compress regardness of what funny headers they might have. >> >>* Gelson Dias Santos * Bitnet/Internet: GELSON@SBU.UFRGS.ANRS.BR * >>* Porto Alegre - RS * Sorry, english is not my native language! * >>* BRAZIL * (Alguem fala portugues?) * >>* Should be working on my taxes but this is more fun... Fred Fish * K. C. Lee "Be careful of what you wish. You might get it."-Master Splinter, T.M.N.T.