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- From: Norman Bullen <nbullen@ix.netcom.com>
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- Subject: Re: What Compression Program to use
- Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 07:58:57 -0800
- Organization: Black Cat Associates
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- dave robbins wrote:
- >
- > What compression program does everyone use too help encrypt the exe
- > files to keep prying eyes away with binary editors? I'm not real crazy
- > about paying the $275.00 dollars that PKware whants for theirs, shareware
- > compression program would be fine.
- >
- > ---
- > Dave Robbins drobbins@servtech.com
- > Utica NY
- I think you have the wrong idea about compression. Compression is used to
- make files smaller for easier transmission, whether across dial-up or
- network or via floppy disk or even CD-ROM. In order to use the files, you
- have to decompress them and then they are exactly the way they were
- before compression and just as accessible to "prying eyes" with "binary
- editors."
-