Date: Tue, 11 Jun 96 12:41:23 MDT
Message-Id: <9606111841.AA25053@rgfn.epcc.Edu>
From: ad327 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT Edu (Matt W. Spencer)
To: A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk
Subject: Re: Why are they so fat?
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Reply-To: ad327 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT Edu



>
>On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, A.Appleyard wrote:
>> The extra bulk that Martin Krieger complains of, is NOT insignificant for a
>> user who has to keep a lot of compiled djgpp .EXE's. In a nearly full disk,
>> such extra bits of store usage per file add up.
>
>  Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> replied:-
>> If that hurts, you should compress your .EXE files. Get DJP (the
>> DJGPP-specific exe compressor) and run it on all your programs. ...
>
>Having to uncompress each program as I need it would be a pain in the neck.

I don't know about DJP, but most .EXE compressors (PKLITE, etc.) leave the
.EXE runnable after compression. In other words, the compressor code does
run-time decompression, so no manual decompression is required. I assume DJP
does the same thing.

Matt

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