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- From: david.brooks@cutting.hou.tx.us (David Brooks)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: Beneficial Compressio
- Message-ID: <4577.110.uupcb@cutting.hou.tx.us>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 3:17:00 GMT
- Distribution: world
- Organization: The Cutting Edge - Houston, TX - 713-466-1525
- Reply-To: david.brooks@cutting.hou.tx.us (David Brooks)
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- RP> I wouldn't say that the project has _no_ practical use. When the idea
- RP> originally came to me it was because I use PowerPacker on my Amiga.
- RP> PowerPacker can be used to compress an executable, with the
- RP> decompression code prepended. There are a few nuisances associated
- RP> with using this. One is that I had to manually select every file to
- RP> be compressed. With a BCV I wouldn't have to do this. I also would
- RP> have to recompress after every time I wanted to edit a file
- RP> (decompressing to view the original code of course). A BCV would take
- RP> care of this for me.
-
- Perhaps a bit off subject, but rather than PowerPacker, why not use
- TurboImploder for you executibles? It will allow you to compress in batch
- mode so that you can implode an entire directory at one shot. It also
- gives a slightly beter compression rate, and best of all, its freeware!
- The catch is that it works ONLY on executibles, so you will still need
- PowerPacker for your data files.
-
- RP> Richard Powers / Disclaimer: My keyboard is \ Computer=Amiga
- RP> rpowers@panix.com < screwy. Missing letters > Music=Industrial
- RP> Hail Eris! \ should be expected. / Food=Vegetarian
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- David Brooks
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- david.brooks@cutting.hou.tx.us
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