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From: gwing@mullauna.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Geoff C Wing)
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Subject: Re: PowerPacker doesn't crunch commands
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Date: 24 Jun 91 16:00:46 GMT
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GELSON%SBU.UFRGS.ANRS.BR@uicvm.uic.edu (Gelson Dias Santos) writes:


> 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.
>   I tryied to crunch Ed and Data but both give me an "Unable to load <command>:
>insufficient free store" when I try to use them. Then I crunched List, and it
>worked fine! I crunched some executable programs (Zoom!, MoviePlayer) and they
>worked too.
>   I don't think the problem is the file size, because List is larger than Date.
>   I have an A500 1.3.2 rev 5 1Mb RAM (512K chip) New Agnus and one external
>drive.
The commands in the c: directory are BCPL which means that they're very strange
by any standard and Powerpacker v2.3 cannot handle them properly (If you pay
shareware fees, you can get v3.0b which handles BCPL programs). But then,
considering the size of some of these. eg 6k, there is hardly any reason to
crunch them(other than having fun). There are different versions of the c: 
commands available, eg. the ARP commands(yes, I use ARP. no, we don't want
another war on the pros and cons of ARP). And other command compression
programs. One popular one in TurboImploder v3.0

>   While I'm here; is possible to crunch a DATA file and it auto-decrunch when
>used? Maybe with another cruncher?
How do you want to use it? Sure it's possible. Powerpacker even does that for
text and ILBM files. Decrunching uses powerpacker.library and PPmore and PPshow.
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