Hi :

I've been following the thread regarding OS/2 and .EXE compression.  I
tried linking with this new option and it worked _great_.  The
compressed vs uncompressed load time seems identical to me.  Thanks
guys for sharing this.

My question is this, compression is something that is usefull in a ton
of different places.  Why doesn't IBM expose an API to their
compression facility?  I have routines in which I accept a switch
which causes compression by writing a buffer to disk and then calling
ZIP.EXE.  This works OK, but the ZIP file directory overhead and system
() call overhead seem redundant, now.  Perhaps I'm speaking too soon,
does IBM have such a compression API?  It would be a boon to wide area
connectivity if they did.


Best wishes,

Tom

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