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- VxDLIB:
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- This tool was primarily designed to extract Windows Virtual Device
- Drivers (VxDs) from W3 (WIN386.EXE) & W4 (VMM32.VXD) format archive
- files. The W4 format is unique to Windows '95 and is a compressed W3
- image, the compression algorithm is the same as that used by DoubleSpace
- (aka DriveSpace) and MRCI (Microsoft's Realtime Compression Interface),
- and uses a Lempel Ziv (LZ) technique to replace repeating data patterns.
- This tool can also unpack a W4 file so that tools like Andrew Schulman's
- W3MAP can work as they did with Windows 3.xx. Unpacking the file will
- also allow you to examine the file with regular hex editors. Unpacked
- files will typically take up far more space, my copy of VMM32.VXD went
- from 0.7MB to 2.0MB. A temporary file is created during pack/unpack
- operations, so this program should be run from the directory where the
- W3/W4 file resides. Files can be packed, or repacked, using this tool.
- I have been able to achieve higher compression ratios than Microsoft's
- DEVLIB tool by finding the best match in the history buffer rather than
- just a good one. Compression speeds are markedly slower than DEVLIB,
- this is because I'm lazy and wrote this tool in C, not highly optimized
- assembler as Microsoft did, and not because I'm an Electronics Engineer!
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- If you found this tool to be mildly useful or entertaining please send
- me some Email, positive feedback is always good to get and makes writing
- FREEWARE worth while. If you didn't like this tool, discard it, and keep
- your sentiments to yourself.
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