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From: rmpinchback@crocus.waterloo.edu (Reid M. Pinchback)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: EXEPACK (was Re: Error in MSKERMIT 2.31 posting)
Summary: Ways to make .COM and .EXE files load faster.
Keywords: EXEPACK, MSDOS, PCDOS, Executables
Message-ID: <8159@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 8 Aug 88 03:10:05 GMT
References: <2988@nicmad.UUCP> <6240@chinet.chi.il.us>
Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu
Reply-To: rmpinchback@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Reid M. Pinchback)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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>
>By the way, the documentation mentions that it is possible to reduce the
>size of the MSVIBM.EXE file by 15K using a program called EXEPACK.  Is
>EXEPACK a public-domain program?  I would like to reduce the size of the
>file to shorten its loading time.
>
>
>-Ed L

    Along the same lines, I remember at various times in the MS-DOS history
seeing references to techniques for modifying .COM and .EXE files so that
they would load faster (apart from making them smaller so that they load
faster due to reduced file size).  Does anybody out there in netland know
anything about this?


    Reid