Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 08:58:40 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Arthur <arfa AT clara DOT net>
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Subject: Re: This is not a problem but...
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On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Arthur wrote:

> The best things about the program packers on the ST and Amiga were that they
> compressed a file to about a third of its original size, and wrote a small
> stub to the file so that it would uncompress the file to memory as if it had
> loaded up normally. This way you could compress any program, not just those
> written in a certain language. They also could compress data files and
> sistributed the algorithm to uncompress these on the fly, so you could
> easily use data compression in your own programs. AFAIK there's nothing on
> the PC which can touch these.

Actually, there are several programs that do this for DOS/Windows 
programs.  There's even one that supports the DJGPP executable format.  
It's in the FAQ.