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From: toma@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: EXEPACK (was Re: Error in MSKERMIT 2.31 posting)
Message-ID: <3797@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>
Date: 10 Aug 88 14:32:13 GMT
References: <8159@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <830@naucse.UUCP>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <830@naucse.UUCP> wew@naucse.UUCP (Bill Wilson) writes:
>Exepack is a program that is supplied with all of the languages
>that I have seen from Microsoft.  [...]
>I have tried it out on a number of large
>programs (200 K range) and it has worked just fine (and saved up
>to 15 K per file).

I would like to point out three things:

1. Exepack is not guarenteed to work with all programs (especially non
   Microsoft compiled languages), and can, in fact, produce an exe file
   that will not execute!

2. Once you pack the file, you cannot use a debugger on it.

3. The linkers supplied with Microsoft languages have an option switch
   to do the packing, which eliminates the separate exepack step.


Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.TEK.COM

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