rk@cs.strath.ac.uk (Richard Kingslake) (09/07/88)
I now have zoo, looz, booz, sez (& fiz - but I have never used it,
fortunately). What an excellent collection. They do nearly all I want.
My 20Mb disc now holds about 30Mb of information!
May I ask R.D if there are any more programs to come in the zoo toolkit?
The only one that I can see is missing is the "Self-extract and Execute"
program. Should it perhaps be called sex? :-) What it would do is to run
rather like a sez-generated archive, but it would only extract a single
file and then place it directly in memory and execute it - rather like
zoo xx archivename programname
does.
If this had an overhead of, say, 3000 bytes, and if a compression ratio of
30% is achieved (as is about normal for .exe files on my machine) then
substantial disc space could be saved for any executable file over 10K
bytes without any "effort". The file could simply be obeyed exactly as
usual. Of course, the load time would be increased, but for relatively
rarely used software this may not be a problem.
{PS sorry - this went out with the wrong Subject: line}
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