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To: Matthias Buelow <mkb@altair.mayn.de>
Cc: "Oleg V. Volkov" <rover@lglobus.ru>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>,
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Subject: Re: Is there correct way for program to read from itself?
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Matthias Buelow wrote at 20:18 +0100 on Nov 19:
 > Oleg V. Volkov wrote:
 > 
 > >Did you hear of executable compressor named "UPX"? Recently version was
 > >made for Linux, and i wish to help author with enough info to make it
 > >work under FreeBSD without recompiling it. Soon, when they release 1.0 with
 > >sources this problems will go away by themselves.
 > 
 > Executable compressor?  I thought DOS with tiny floppies was dead? :)

man gzexe (from the gzip contrib stuff)...

 > I don't think such a thing is useful;

it's quite handy given the right situation


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