Message-Id: <199910052233.SAA04210@delorie.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 12:05:58 +0200
From: Laszlo Molnar <laszlo DOT molnar AT eth DOT ericsson DOT se>
To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Subject: UPX 0.84 executable packer
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Dear audience,

we are pleased to announce the next public beta release of our
new executable packer UPX. The Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
is a portable, extensible, high-performance executable packer for
several different executable formats. It achieves an excellent
compression ratio and offers *very* fast decompression.

UPX can pack (and unpack) the following executable formats:
        dos/exe, dos/sys, dos/com, djgpp2/coff, watcom/le,
        win32/pe, rtm32/pe, linux/i386 and tmt/adam

Changes in 0.84 (04 Oct 1999)
  * dos/exe: fixed a rare problem where the decompressor could crash
  * some other minor fixes

As we mentioned above this is a BETA TEST release, so DO NOT USE THIS
VERSION EXCEPT FOR TESTING. Only compress backups of your executables.
Also, please report all problems or suggestions to the authors. Thanks.

Spread and enjoy,
Laszlo & Markus

               http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/upx.html
                          http://www.nexus.hu/upx