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- From: tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au (Tonio Loewald)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: AutoDoubler 2.0 vs. StuffIt SpaceSaver
- Date: 21 Jan 93 09:41:26 GMT
- Organization: Australian National University
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- Message-ID: <tal691.727609286@huxley>
- References: <0105010A.nomlfh@salient.com> <C11IFI.1pr@cs.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan18.100348.10337@newstand.syr.edu> <C13DCz.8yA@cs.uiuc.edu>
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- hull@ibmb0.cs.uiuc.edu (David Hull) writes:
-
- >greeny@top.cis.syr.edu (J. S. Greenfield) writes:
-
- >>Well, for starters, you shouldn't be running AIC-compressed software on a
- >>machine without an AutoDoubler license.
-
- >Says who? As long as I run the AIC program on my licensed machine, I
- >ought to be able to run compressed programs wherever I want. I suppose
- >the next thing you'll tell me is that I should only run my C programs
- >are on the machine that has my licensed copy of Think C?
-
-
- Says the licence agreement. (Unfortunately.) Obviously, developers could
- use AIC to distribute smaller versions of their programs. I don't know
- what Salient/5th has against this, and when I inquired about it they told
- me that they're contemplating a developer package for doing just this.
-
- If you have a look at MORE (from Symantec), it has also been compressed
- using "VISE(tm)", and AIC can't save anything. By the looks of things,
- VISE is doing something similar.
-
- AIC sticks a chunk of code in a compressed application to effect resource
- decompression on the fly. This piece of code is copyright and Salient/5th
- is legally entitled to licence it as they see fit.
-
- Similar software has been available on the Amiga as freeware for years
- (but is much more simple-minded, simply decompressing the whole app into
- RAM on startup).
-
- Tonio
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- Tonio Loewald | tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au
-
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