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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: SEZ: a suggestion for the next version...
Keywords: Self-extracting ZOO archives
Message-ID: <4538@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 28 Oct 88 22:09:34 GMT
References: <5450@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> <4529@bsu-cs.UUCP> <3048@uoregon.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
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In article <3048@uoregon.uoregon.edu> stevev@drizzle.UUCP (Steve VanDevender)
writes:
>Why should a self-extracting archive have to find itself, if it's already
>loaded into memory?

It's not.  Only the first 2500 bytes or so, which contain the
extraction code, is loaded into meory.

It's possible to fudge and make MS-DOS load the whole thing.  But then
you would need 500 K of free memory to extract a 500 K archive.  I
think there would be complaints from users if this happened.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi