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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!aukuni.ac.nz!cs18.cs.aukuni.ac.nz!mbuc1
  2. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
  3. Subject: Re: Compression
  4. Message-ID: <1992Jul23.235258.27899@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
  5. From: mbuc1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Matthew Richard     Buchanan       )
  6. Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 23:52:58 GMT
  7. References: <cheungc.711801996@p4.cs.man.ac.uk> <1992Jul23.053515.4271@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <sheldon.711902145@pv1413.vincent.iastate.edu>
  8. Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland
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  11. In <sheldon.711902145@pv1413.vincent.iastate.edu> sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes:
  12.  
  13. >In <1992Jul23.053515.4271@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> mjbrown@lonestar.utsa.edu (Marc J. Brown) writes:
  14.  
  15. [stuff deleted]
  16.  
  17. > I never looked at Imploder, but I believe it did the same thing as
  18. >Powerpacker.
  19. > I haven't looked into this, but I believe Powerpacker is essentially similar
  20. >to PKLite on the IBM.  That is, it just compresses the executable files so that
  21. >when they are executed they decompress in memory and hopefully work normally.
  22.  
  23. Imploder had one advantage in that it uncompacted its executables into the
  24. same memory as they were stored to begin with - unlike PowerPacker which
  25. uncompacted them into another section of memory. Very helpful on low
  26. memory machines.
  27.  
  28. Cheers, Matt.
  29. [more stuff deleted]
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