Some senseless babbling from Jonathan De Boyne Pollard to Mike Ruskai
on 11-18-99  09:45 about "Paging Peter Knapper! .....

 JDBP>> runs of zero bytes.  LX executables generally do not.  (I say
 JDBP>> "generally", because if they use Watcom C/C++ the linker doesn't
 JDBP>> support compression, alas.  This is a deficiency in Watcom's
 JDBP>> linker, and an unfortunate example of the "jack of all trades,
 JDBP>> master of none" adage.)  This is, of course, visible in the
 JDBP>> comparative sizes of Win32 and 32-bit OS/2 executables. 
 
 MR> FYI, folks, one needn't rely on the compression abilities of a linker
 MR> in OS/2 to compress an executable.
 MR>
 MR> There's a utility called LxLite which you can use to compress or
 MR> recompress an executable.

 JDBP> Since I use the Watcom linker myself, I'm interested.  Where ? Hobbes
 JDBP> ? DevCon ?

ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/archiver/lxlt121.zip
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/archiver/lxlt121src.zip

The second file is the source code.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


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