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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Subject: Re: DID YOU KNOW DIET144.ZIP ?
- Message-ID: <bontchev.726783532@fbihh>
- Sender: news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Mr. News)
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- Organization: Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
- References: <1993Jan8.101452.5010@schbbs.mot.com> <1993Jan10.175421.16863@daimi.aau.dk>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 20:18:52 GMT
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- tusk@daimi.aau.dk (Martin M|ller Pedersen) writes:
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- > 1: pkzip v1.93 and hpack0.78a0 doesn't work if some files are packed
- > with diet. Use arj instead.
-
- What do you mean - that the first two archivers just crash or that
- they don't compress well? Because, compressing DIETed files does not
- make sense at all - they are already compressed...
-
- > 2: Some games destroyed themself if they are diet-packed because
- > they write direct to their .exe files. E.g. twinpac
-
- That's true for -any- executable compressor, not just for Diet.
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
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