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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!daimi!tusk
- From: tusk@daimi.aau.dk (Martin M|ller Pedersen)
- Subject: Re: DID YOU KNOW DIET144.ZIP ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.175421.16863@daimi.aau.dk>
- Sender: news@daimi.aau.dk
- Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
- References: <1993Jan8.101452.5010@schbbs.mot.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 17:54:21 GMT
- Lines: 68
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- TCSAR03@waccvm.corp.mot.com (Germain Leutwyler) writes:
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- >Hi,
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- >Just to share some info...
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- >I found few weeks ago the above utility in the well-known but anonymous
- >ftpsite nic.funet.fi under \pub\msdos\utilities\filutl.
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- >I use it for all files on my HD but it is not an archiver !
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- >All files could be made self-extractable (.EXE, .COM, .SYS) including
- >programs with overlays (!!!) and DATA files too.
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- >This utility could be run in TSR mode, the memory space used is
- >minimal and speed is adequate (transparent for the user).
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- >It is a good alternative versus complete subdirectories archivers for
- >people being short in space with their HD. Try it and let me know your
- >feelings afterwards !
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- >Best regards and happy new year,
- >Germain
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-
- There is a few problems with diet 1.44 beware of this:
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- 1: pkzip v1.93 and hpack0.78a0 doesn't work if some files are packed
- with diet. Use arj instead.
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- 2: Some games destroyed themself if they are diet-packed because
- they write direct to their .exe files. E.g. twinpac
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- 3: diet is very slow with some overlayed program. e.g. fractint 17.2
- (very very slow).
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- I use diet to all my textfiles and SOME games and always make
- a backup before I try diet for the first time on a new game.
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- Have others found some problems with diet and other programs?
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- ./'. "II\\. (\_/) .//II' .`\.
- ./'.I'.'IIII\\I.. )o o( ..I//IIII"."I."\.
- ./'..I'.II IIIII\\\\ "" _ "" ////IIIII II."I.."\.
- ./'.II'.IIII IIIIIIIIIIII. .IIIIIIIIIIII IIII."II."\.
- /'III'.IIIIII IIIIIIIIIIII( )IIIIIIIIIIII IIIIII."III"\
- ".III".IIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIII( )IIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIII.`III.`
- ".III IIIIIIIII I/" ``\II`` ""II/'' `\I IIIIIIIII.`III.`
- I/' \./' "\./ \|I\ /I|/ \./" "\./ "\I
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- "HAVE NO FEAR CAUSE BATMAN'S HERE......""""
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- Another member of The BatSign Board (TM)
- Martin M. Pedersen, Aarhus University, Aarhus
- Internet address: tusk@daimi.aau.dk
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