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From: cjeffery@arizona.edu (Clinton Jeffery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: looz-execute? (was Re: I have PC NetHack 2.3 working, will post)
Message-ID: <5271@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 30 Apr 88 01:38:13 GMT
References: <2805@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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From article <2805@bsu-cs.UUCP>, by dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi):
> So it seemed likely that the direct extract/execute feature of looz
> would only be useful for small programs....[8086 segment gripes ommitted]
> I'm inclined to keep the looz source secret though...[songs of praise...]
> publishing source might cause loss of this distinction. :-)

1) Well, gee, it turns out direct compress/execute of large
   files has interesting applications after all, doesn't it?
2) How serious is this smiley?  It IS your program, but...
3) All this points to an obvious question: will some OTHER archiver execute
   a 373K file out of an archive?  Even if it doesn't release its memory
   before doing so, 640K 2-disk pc users might be able to run PCNethack.
   There are a lot of 640K 2-disk pc users.  I am *NOT* one of them!!!
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