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- From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
- Subject: Re: Executables compressors
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.154449.13867@rei.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:44:49 GMT
- References: <16q2tmINN12j@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.
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- bho@ocf.berkeley.edu (Bing Ho) writes:
-
- >In a recent comment, Mr. de Vries (I apologize if the spelling is wrong!)
- >mentioned that diet, pklite, or lzexe does better than stacker (and by
- >extrapolation, super stor) on large executables.
-
- >Now that I have read this, I am contemplating compressing some of those
- >really largeexecutables that I have.
-
- This may be a moot question, since really large executables tend to have
- overlays built in, making it difficult (if not impossible) to compress
- them and still allow them to execute.
-
- So far, my favorite compress-any-EXE solution is a file called X.COM,
- which keeps your EXE's in a .ZIP file, and uncompresses them when you
- ask, with a command like "X <command> <parameters>".
-
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