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From: schuster@dasys1.UUCP (Michael Schuster)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: EXEPACK (was Re: Error in MSKERMIT 2.31 posting)
Keywords: EXEPACK, MSDOS, PCDOS, Executables
Message-ID: <5921@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 10 Aug 88 01:13:21 GMT
Reply-To: schuster@dasys1.UUCP (Michael Schuster)
Organization: The Big Electric Cat; New York, N.Y. USA
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In article <8159@watdragon.waterloo.edu> writes:
>
>By the way, the documentation mentions that it is possible to reduce the
>size of the MSVIBM.EXE file by 15K using a program called EXEPACK.  Is
>EXEPACK a public-domain program?  I would like to reduce the size of the
>file to shorten its loading time.

EXEPACK is copyrighted software from Microsoft. It is included in their
Macro Assembler package, and may be bundled with other products
too; I'm not sure. There is a shareware cruncher called SCRNCH
which is available on CompuServe and GEnie. It will do EXE to COM
conversions and back, as well as pretty impressive packing using a
proprietary algorithm. It's very slow tho (10 minutes to pack a 32K
file, running on a hard disk and 20 mHz 386 machine with math chip).
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