ho@hoss.unl.edu (Tiny Bubbles...) (12/23/90)
In <ce3iu1w163w@mantis.co.uk> tony@mantis.co.uk (Tony Lezard) writes: >mark@zach.fit.edu ( Mark R. Craig) writes: >> I need to get FRACTINT.EXE to fit on one low density 5.25" floppy. >As has already been pointed out, LZEXE is the program to do this. >Unfortunately, FRACTINT (version 14) appears to have already been >compressed by LZEXE (well, my copy anyway) and so of course no >further compression attempts will reduce it noticably below 168k. More bad news for Mark -- version 15 of FractINT uses overlays, which prevents it from being compresses by LZEXE, PKLITE or (I suspect) any other .EXE compressor. The executable alone no longer fits on a 360K floppy, much less with DOS and COMMAND.COM. This doesn't disturb *me* too greatly, because I have a hard drive -- but it would be a pain in the @$$ for those without hard drives. Too bad, because v15 has a much nicer interface. (More accurately, v15 HAS a user interface.) [Followups directed to comp.os.msdos.misc; it was my understanding that this group isn't supposed to exist.] -- ... Michael Ho, University of Nebraska Internet: ho@hoss.unl.edu | "Mine... is the last voice that you will ever hear." Disclaimer: I ain't CRC, I ain't the DN, and they ain't me. What a relief.
ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) (12/23/90)
In article <1990Dec22.204844.16050@hoss.unl.edu> ho@hoss.unl.edu (Tiny Bubbles...) writes: ... much deleted ... >More bad news for Mark -- version 15 of FractINT uses overlays, which >prevents it from being compresses by LZEXE, PKLITE or (I suspect) any >other .EXE compressor. ... rest deleted ... Just a simple question. Have you actually tried PKLITE on Fracint 1.5? (No need to answer about LZEXE, it is not even supposed to handle overlays.) ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3) School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun