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- From: matt@matt.fidalgo.net (Matt Gischer)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: What Compression Program to use
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 01:06:29 GMT
- Organization: Uncle Fran's Musical Forest
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- Norman Bullen (nbullen@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
- : 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."
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- You seem to be confused. Pklite compresses executables that will still run. so.. they are decompressed on the fly.
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