John.Guest@f220.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (John Guest) (06/11/90)
The folks who want what it does will use it. Others who are buying the "buzzword" won't. A brief suggestion for some release of disk space is for you to give LZEXE a try. Its an "execute from compression" program that will compress all files (.exe, and .bat - and .com if converted to .exe) and execute them "on the fly" from disk (expansion in memory, not on disk). It doesn't work on all types of files (mostly a matter of how files are opened and closed) but does work on many. It compresses approximately as much as ZIP does. This may well give you the few extra meg you "need". Another item is from PCMagazine called dcompres, I think, that (although also will not work on EVERY FILE) will also compress/decompress on the fly and works with many data files as well as others. It may buy you some more space. Good luck. -- John Guest via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH UUCP: ...!osu-cis!n8emr!cmhgate!220!John.Guest INET: John.Guest@f220.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG