Hi Barry,
(Friday April 10 1998 15:21) Barry Block to Ted Menks about: Question #1!
 TM>> I've succeeded in killing 4Dos.com, by using an
 TM>> executable-compressor once, while persuing more efficient
 TM>> disk-usage ;-) `UCEXE 4Dos.com` certainly killed the poor thing!
 BB>      4dos.com will compress sucessfully using pklite.
 BB>  (don't run a debugger on 4dos.com without backing up the debugger 
rst)
Thanks, Barry. Not that I didn't know most of this allready... ;-)
I didn't know about the debugger, though...
But I've decided not to compress command-interpreters anymore. They run much 
better if you don't fiddle with them ;-)
And, to be honest, I *do* have more than adequate disk-space ;-)))))))
 BB> I guess ucexe is not so good. I try all the compressors that I see
 BB> for downloading. Most are written by hackers and don't really compare
 BB> with pklite. Main reason to use them is that fewer unpackers know of
 BB> 'em.
UCEXE isn't just a hacker's tool, anyway. It's part of the UC2 package, and 
often compresses much better than PKlite. Some programs *do* get a bit crazy 
after using it, however. Some of the PC-DOS executables didn't survive the 
treatment, either. DEBUG also became useless, after compression, and you know 
how important *that* one is to me ;-)
Prosperity and a long life,
  Ted Menks   Fido  : 2:2449/236.51 / 2:284/412.51
  PGPkeyID: 2048/1B2ACCED  1997/10/03 (available by RRQ)
... If at first you don't succeed, have somebody else do it for you!
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