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- From: wieck@jwminhh.hanse.de (Jan Wieck)
- Subject: Re: Source for compressor
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.214648.3819@jwminhh.hanse.de>
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 21:46:48 GMT
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- peter@stycx.hacktic.nl (Author) writes:
- : Help!! Is there somebody out there who happens to have source for a
- : compression program which allows me to archive directories and create
- : self extracting files.
-
- This must be a very OS-dependent job forever (so this might not be the
- correct newsgroup).
-
- The only way, to produce an executable in a portable way, is to create
- the archive in constants included in a source and then compiling it.
- But at this point, most archives wouldn't be executabel (or able to
- get compiled) any longer due to their size.
-
- Look for some compression algorithm, where the decompression part is
- so smart that it wouldn't matter, to redistribute a separate decompressor
- any time.
-
-
- Until later, Jan
-
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