Message-Id: <199611131013.XAA04799@papaioea.manawatu.gen.nz> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Malcolm Taylor" Organization: Grafik Software To: "Martin....." Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 23:09:31 +1200 Subject: Re: Smaller distribution archives Reply-to: malcolm AT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com > 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