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to: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
from: David Noon
date: 1999-11-27 19:06:16
subject: Packing executables

Hi Jonathan,

Replying to a message of Jonathan de Boyne Pollard to MIKE RUSKAI:

 MR>> FYI, folks, one needn't rely on the compression abilities of a linker
 MR>> in OS/2 to compress an executable.  There's a utility called LxLite
 MR>> which you can use to compress or recompress an executable.

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

There is a simpler utility called REPACK.EXE that has been on the DevCon CD's
for about 4 years now. It will decompress a .EXE or .DLL, or compress it using 
either /EXEPACK:1 or /EXEPACK:2 compression algorithms. I think it installs
with the DTK, otherwise it will be with the general developer tools.

Regards

Dave


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