--- owens@peak.org wrote:

>>snip>>
> > I found this listed as homepage of mscompress from
> > freshmeat.net:
> >
> > http://martin.hinner.info/mscompress/
> >
> > But, there is little info of there either.
> > Mysterious.
> >
> > Thanks again.
> > Regards.
> >
> > -- Angus
> >
> Angus
> To find out how the mscompress works google LZ77 or
> merely Lempel-Ziv
> compression (this is the Lempel-Ziv compression
> algorithm-it has been used
> in multiple compression schemes since it is in the
> public domain)
> Larry

Thanks Larry. I tried googling as per your suggestion,
and,
wow....heavy duty geek-speak!

Way above my head, but interesting just the same. I
just
sort of wanted to know how to use mscompress to
de-compress
an exe.
Sort of like driving the car without knowing exactly
how every
part functions.

Here's a cool animation of the Lempel-Ziv encoding
algorithm
doing it's thing:

http://www.data-compression.com/lempelziv.html

I guess maybe, to quote a very wise fox, "those grapes
are
probably much too sour anyway".

Best regards.

-- Angus

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On 1/25/08, Angus Auld <aonghas_auld@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Way above my head, but interesting just the same. I
> just
> sort of wanted to know how to use mscompress to
> de-compress

Angus:

I think you'll find that ordinary unzip or 7zip can do that for you.
There basically are two kinds of compressed executables

1) the executable archive, basically a zip file with a little bit of
program code that basically says to "unzip me". These files are far
more common, and handle very well on Linux.

2) the "expand" type compressed exes. These are distinct because they
all have a trailing _ as part of their name, and only seems to be
common on Windows installation media, to save space on the disks. I
don't think there is a tool that will handle this natively on Linux.


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