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Re: Where have the RUN-TIME ARCHIVERS gone?????

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From: Kauto Huopio OH5LFM
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1991 01:12
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> In article <7432.27dfa80d@cc.curtin.edu.au> Lynch_MJ@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
> >
> >DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN GET LhExe OR THE PKZIP EQUIV.?
> >
> >A few months ago I FTP'd an run time archiver program. It was called somthing
> >like lhexe.exe. It archived executable programs and added a de-crunch header
> >to the file. This allowed users to compress executable programs so that they
> >unpacked while loading. Unfortunately I lost it, and now I can't find it
> >anywhere. I knew of two programs, one used the same compression as LhArc and
> >the other used PkZip compression. 

Timo comments:
> process, since most often these utilities are self-extracting). At
> the time of writing this we have eg
>   arc602.exe      SEA's .arc packing/unpacking system.
>   arj100.zip      Robert Kung's .arj archiver
>   lh113de.exe     Lharc for .lzh compression
>   lha210e.exe     LHa for .lzh compression, English version.
>   pak251.exe      NoGate (un)packing for pak, arc, sdn, zip, files
>   pk361.exe       This packed and unpacked .arc files fast
>   pkz110eu.exe    PKZIP/PKUNZIP "Euroversion" with no encryption
>   zoo201.exe      Zoo packing/unpacking facility from Rahul Dhesi

> The wares are available by anonymous ftp from garbo.uwasa.fi, Vaasa,
> Finland, 128.214.12.37, or by using our mail server (use the latter
> if, and only if you don't have anonymous ftp).  If you are not

For australian users, I'd recommend looking into sol.deakin.oz.au
-archives (128.184.1.1) to the directories /pub/PC/chyde and so on.
They seem to mirror the garbo.uwasa.fi archives!

--Kauto
 
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Subject: Re: Where have the RUN-TIME ARCHIVERS gone?????
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Date: 17 Mar 91 01:12:18 GMT
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