From:	Eric Backus <ericb AT lsid DOT hp DOT com>
Subject:	Re: DJGPP executables and PKLite-like tools
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date:	Wed, 22 Apr 92 10:24:35 PDT
Mailer:	Elm [revision: 66.25]
Status:	O

Vincenzo (Enzo) Romano writes:
> Does anyone of you used tools like PKLite on the DJGPP .EXE files?
> PKLite is a kind of compressor that compresses an executable file leaving
> it still executable. The trick is that the shrinked file expand itself
> aftern the loading procedure and before running.
> BTW, what's the "best" of all the PKLite-like tools?

I've found the "best" executable comrpessor to be "diet".  It is free,
it compresses as well as pklite or lzexe, it can compress .SYS files,
it can go TSR and compress/uncompress data files for your compressed
executables.

But I have no idea how to make any of these work with DJGPP .EXE files.
--
				Eric Backus
				ericb%hplsla AT hplabs DOT hp DOT com
				(206) 335-2495

- Raw text -