Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!src
From: src@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: MSC 5.0 CVPACK Program
Message-ID: <2302@cup.portal.com>
Date: 6 Jan 88 00:31:00 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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The MSC 5.0 disks include a program called CVPACK.  I haven't been able
to find any documentation on this program.  Does anyone know what it
does?  Is it documented???

By my own experiments, it appears to pack CodeView debug information.
Apparently, the debug information is packed and then appended to the
end of the .EXE file.  If the "-p" command line option is specified,
the original debug info is truncated from the .EXE before appending
the packed info, thereby making the .EXE file smaller.

On the one small program I tested this on, the debug information was
reduced from 1200 bytes to about 170 bytes.  Quite a change.  And the
program still ran fine under CodeView.

Anybody else have more information about this program?

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Steve Calwas                            src@cup.portal.com
Santa Clara, CA                         ...!sun!cup.portal.com!src
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