Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/13/05:31:20
> Bill Currie wrote:
> > Mark Habersack wrote:
> > > Bill Currie wrote:
> > > > How about mtsquish?
> > > Hmm... I think it's hard to spell smoothly. Maybe MASH (Malcolm's
> > > Advanced System arcHiver)? It spells easily (like 'mash it, please', 'is
> > > it mashed?') and everyone knows the movie and TV series - it will catch
> > > ;-)) I'm serious!
> >
> > Sounds good to me (I hope your archiver doesn't start spewing shrapnell
> > (sp):).
> >
> A perfect name. Very catchy and easy to remember.
OK, mash it is. It does have a certain quality about it :)
> BTW... Does anyone know if this will have an self extracting option(for
> example make a mash file into a self extracting EXE) or does anyone know
> how you would do such a thing(perhaps some example code somewhere)???
It will, eventually. The low memory use of the algorithm (ie less
than 2.5Mb for extraction) means that a PMODE stubed self extractor
will be usable even on a 4Mb machine, and I've not heard of any
people having a 386+ with less than 4Mb. The only problem with PMODE
is that I have had it not work on one OS/2 machine (never figured out
why) but work fine on another. There will also eventually be SFX for
Win32 and OS/2 at the very least.
Malcolm
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