From: bcr@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Bill C. Riemers) Subject: gexe (was: ANNOUNCE: TCX 1.02 is on sunsite.unc.edu) Date: 9 Apr 1993 00:40:46 GMT
In article <1pnlfu$4en@fitz.TC.Cornell.EDU> hlu@eecs.wsu.edu writes:
> TCX - Transparently Compressed Executables (For Unix)
> by
> Stewart Forster, University Of Melbourne, 1993
>TCX is a system designed for the transparent decompression, execution
>and recompression of executables under Unix. It allows configuration
>options such as the type of compression system used (compress(1),
>gzip(1), your own local system etc), timeouts between recompressions,
>and emergency directories in case a decompression fails from shortage
>of disk space. ...
To be honest I haven't tried this yet... It sounds to complicated. If
you want something simple, I've upload a csh script that will compress
files and add a shell header for automatic uncompression. No it doesn't
have alot of bang a whisles, but it'll work with only minimal modification
on any system that supports gzip and csh. Its short too! The tpz file
is only 2k and that is including a manual page. I've been successfully
using this script for several months, so it should be safe for more general
use. The compressed file is not replaced durring uncompressing, so there
is no danger of lossing your executable when the command aborts due to an
error. The only danger is that you'll accidently compress gzip...
Bill