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- From: philipm@bu.edu (philip melnick)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Packers
- Date: 20 Mar 1996 09:30:38 GMT
- Organization: Boston University
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- Phil Hoff (phoff@ecst.csuchico.edu) wrote:
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- : > Not quite -- packers are used by demo people and such to squish a bunch
- : > of separate areas of memory into a single file, often compressed. When
- : > you run the program, it will first depack the various pieces into memory,
- : > then run the main program.
- : >
- : > I think a packer is more like a memory archiver. You can pack a bunch
- : > of files into a single file, but good luck trying to get the separate
- : > files back out again onto disk :).
- : >
- : > evetS-
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- : I have a program called Image Packer that packs multiple files into a
- : single file. All you need to do is load and run the packed file to
- : re-create the components ON DISK. There is no compression done on the
- : image file as it is called, but it is great for making backup copies
- : of your software, because all the files that should be associated
- : together are in a single file, and you never have to worry about what
- : files go with the one you are trying to replace on a bombed disk
- : (for example).
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- To: phoff@ecst.csuchico.edu (Phil Hoff)
- Subject: Re: Packers
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
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- I dunno what you guys are talkin about. From what I've seen, Packers are kind
- of like giant sized Popples that are experts at farming. They hate lines
- and like round things. They have quite a bit of difficulty walking up
- stairs. Don't keep any crops around them, or they'll just gobble them up.
- This is somewhat of a handicap for them, since they generally are farmers.
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