brian@leah.Albany.Edu (Brian King) (06/28/90)
I was just reading in the June 25, 1990 issue of INFOWORLD about a program called LZE. It supposedly takes empty space out of EXE and COM files. It also states that execution speeds can nearly double at times. Has anyone used this? Does it really work? Has it meesed up any of your files? Are there any FTP sites that I can obtain this from? Thanks for any help. -Brian King University at Albany Internet: brian@leah.albany.edu Bitnet: brian@albnyvms.bitnet P.S. The article was on page 90.
reisert@ricks.enet.dec.com (Jim Reisert) (06/28/90)
In article <3250@leah.Albany.Edu>, brian@leah.Albany.Edu (Brian King) writes... >states that execution speeds can nearly double at times. Has anyone used this? >Does it really work? Has it meesed up any of your files? Are there any FTP >sites that I can obtain this from? Thanks for any help. Brian, I believe you'll find the program on SIMTEL20 as: PD1:<MSDOS.FILUTL>LZEXE91.ZIP Execution speed isn't affected, but it does take a finite amount of time to unpack the file as it's read off the disk (I don't notice it, though). There's a companion program to uncompress a compressed .EXE file, UNLZEXE I believe it's called, also available on SIMTEL20 somewhere. I found it very useful for compressing 300K executables down to 150K. jim =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "The opinions expressed here in no way represent the views of Digital Equipment Corporation." James J. Reisert Internet: reisert@ricks.enet.dec.com Digital Equipment Corp. UUCP: ...decwrl!ricks.enet!reisert 77 Reed Road Hudson, MA 01749-2895
nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (06/28/90)
In article <3250@leah.Albany.Edu> brian@leah.Albany.Edu (Brian King) writes:
I was just reading in the June 25, 1990 issue of INFOWORLD about a
program called LZE. It supposedly takes empty space out of EXE and
COM files. It also states that execution speeds can nearly double
at times. Has anyone used this? Does it really work? Has it meesed
up any of your files? Are there any FTP sites that I can obtain
this from? Thanks for any help.
Sigh. In principle, it's a combination of an archive program and a built-in
uncompressor that uncompresses and runs the program. It can't make your
programs execute faster, it can only make them load faster (BTW, it does,
unless the program is in ramdisk or disk cache).
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In Capitalism's advertising, citizens are told "you will buy widgets".frotz@drivax.UUCP (Frotz) (06/28/90)
brian@leah.Albany.Edu (Brian King) writes:
] I was just reading in the June 25, 1990 issue of INFOWORLD about a program
] called LZE. It supposedly takes empty space out of EXE and COM files. It also
] states that execution speeds can nearly double at times. Has anyone used this?
] Does it really work? Has it meesed up any of your files? Are there any FTP
] sites that I can obtain this from? Thanks for any help.
] P.S. The article was on page 90.
Try looking for LZEXE.EXE and LZSHELL.EXE (?) Me thinks that someone
on a BBS is being stupid and renaming things. Or else Cringely is a
little misinformed (by our standards...:-O:-O
Yes they do work, unless of course you are able to move your operating
system into high memory in which case all LZEXE-d executables will
fail miserably. The workaround is to load something into the first
segment, so that the LZEXE decompression code finds segment 0 as a
valid end of decompression indicator, and not right off the bat.
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