shivap@agora.uucp (Shivaprasad Sadashivaiah) (10/11/90)
Hi Netters I couldn't find any information on RTlink+ before I purchase. I used it for two days and reduced one of our program's size from 475K to 275K. That is really a very great reduction in program size. I have not tested all the capabilities of my program, but, the basic things works fine. Actually, RTlink+ has lot of other features like virualising data segments also. But, I will have to try it and see. Any way, it looks like a very good tool which Microsoft didn't provide. Right now, RTlink supports Microsofts C 5.1, 6.0, MASM, FORTRAN, BASIC etc., Borland's C, Pascal and other compilers. It is available from the following address : Pocket Soft, Inc. P.O. Box 821049 Houston Texas - 77282 (713)-460-5600 Fax: (713)-460-2651 The registered price of the liker is $495.00 + $5.00 (SH). They have a special rate till Oct. 15th 1990 about $295.00 + $5.00 (SH). I think, it is worth buying if your program size is your main concern. Thanks, Yours Shivaprasad Sadashivaiah shivap@agora.hf.intel.com (503)-644-1960 X135 Oct. 10th 1990
silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver) (10/12/90)
In article <1990Oct10.232717.17122@agora.uucp> shivap@agora.uucp (Shivaprasad Sadashivaiah) writes:
$I couldn't find any information on RTlink+ before I purchase. I used it for
$two days and reduced one of our program's size from 475K to 275K. That is
$really a very great reduction in program size. I have not tested all the
$capabilities of my program, but, the basic things works fine.
There are also programs available which compress EXE and COM files using
the standard LZW method but leave them executable (i.e. when you load the
file in, some code added by the compressor will transparently uncompress
the file so the image in memory is identical, but the executable takes
less space on the disk). I've seen references to one or two of these in
the catalogs of shareware/PD houses, and also PKWare has one that was in
beta testing a few months ago.
If you have any experience with such programs, please SEND ME EMAIL
describing your experiences. Any info would be appreciated. I'll chew
on the information and post some form of summary to the net in a couple of
weeks.
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A while ago, I posted the following: There are also programs available which compress EXE and COM files using the standard LZW method but leave them executable (i.e. when you load the file in, some code added by the compressor will transparently uncompress the file so the image in memory is identical, but the executable takes less space on the disk). I've seen references to one or two of these in the catalogs of shareware/PD houses, and also PKWare has one that was in beta testing a few months ago. If you have any experience with such programs, please SEND ME EMAIL describing your experiences. Any info would be appreciated. I'll chew on the information and post some form of summary to the net in a couple of weeks. ----------------------------------(cut here)------------------------------- Here is the response I received: From: sph@ihlpm.att.com (Stephen P Hill) I have used both LZEXE and PKLITE (Beta version), and never had one of them corrupt a program. PKLITE seems to compress the files slightly (very slightly) more than LZEXE. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- HI ROGER |Nikebo says "Nikebo knows how to post. Just do it."| silver@xrtll _________|-----------------------|_______________|------------|_____________ yunexus!xrtll!silver (L, not 1) | Hi Ho Silver | costing the net thousands Silver: Ever Searching for SNTF |i need a grilf | upon thousands of dollars