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echo: 4dos
to: BORIS TERZIC
from: JORJ STRUMOLO
date: 1998-04-27 23:38:00
subject: compressing EXEs

BT> Not bad at all, but have you got WWPACK? It does a pretty decent job,
 I've tried it, at least some versions back, and it doesn't seem
 to like my setup, for whatever reason, and keeps locking me up.
 And to make up for the off-topic, a BTM fragment.  Called by
 aliases 'da' thru 'dm', of the form 'call J x' where 'x' is
 the last letter of the alias and J.BTM starts out like:
 goto %1^goto End
:A
:B
:C
:D
:E
:F
:G
:H
:I
:J
:K
:L
:M
 if %@ready[%1:] ne 1 (
  echos |T|T|T|T Drive %@upper[%1]: not ready^quit)
 set Sz=%@disktotal[%1:,bc] byte capacity^set Na=%@lower[%@label[%1]]
 if %@diskused[%1:,b]==0 (echos |T|T|T Disk %1 {%Na} Empty * %Sz^goto DZ)
 echos |T|T|T -- %Sz --^echo |T %Na^*dir/h2vogeka %1:\%2&
:DZ
 us Sz Na^quit
 ('|T' subbed for Ctrl-X T for Fido, plus other ascii-ization.)
 Produces output approximately like:
1 D:\SR$REPLY\CHOWDA>dc
                        -- 2,035,200 byte capacity --   c2 charm
autoexec.bat    1283   3-16-98  5:47p   io.sys       40774   5-31-94  6:22a
command.com    54645   5-31-94  6:22a   msdos.sys    38138   5-31-94  6:22a
config.sys       926   2-16-98 10:32p
        135,766 bytes in 5 files and 0 dirs    136,704 bytes allocated
      1,898,496 bytes free
... Ever notice that even the busiest people are never too busy
--- SR 2.00 #1019  -!-  to tell you just how busy they are?
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* Origin: Chowdanet! 20gb Amateur Radio BBS (401-331-5587) (1:323/120)

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