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From: darrylo@hpsrlc.HP.COM (Darryl Okahata)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Re: reducing size of exe files
Message-ID: <3320018@hpsrlc.HP.COM>
Date: Tue, 2-Jun-87 10:45:39 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  2 10:45:39 1987
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In comp.sys.ibm.pc, rosen@mtgzz.UUCP (t.rosenfeld) writes:
>
> In article <4044@amd.UUCP>, markg@amd.UUCP (Mark Gorlinsky) writes:
> > In article <3624@spool.WISC.EDU> bolo@spool.WISC.EDU (Joe Burger) writes:
> > >I'm looking for utilities that will reduce the size of .EXE 
> > >files produced by either Quick Basic or Turbo Basic.
> > 
> > I have a program called EXE2COM that changes a EXE file to a COM file.
> > It does this by removing the EXE related header, packing the file, and putting
> > on a new header.
> > 
> > The only limitation is that the EXE file has to <64K.
> 
>Microsoft has a program EXEPACK that comes with their compiler that uses
>some scheme to pack any .exe file. This works on files >64K also.
                     ^^^
                     Microsoft claims that EXEPACK will work ONLY with code 
generated by their compilers; they do not claim that it will work with
anything else.

>I think it packs nulls and removes debug and symbol table info and the like.
>
>-- 
>Tom Rosenfeld	 	@ AT&T Information Systems Labs, Middletown, NJ
>			(201) 957-5867 	
>			UUCP:		{harpo,ihnp4,burl,akgua}!mtgzz!rosen
>Disclaimer: I don't claim anything.
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