From: Kristian Koehntopp (kris@black.toppoint.de)
Date: 02/11/93 

From: kris@black.toppoint.de (Kristian Koehntopp)
Subject: Re: Automatic compression of binaries ?
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 10:16:52 GMT

In <1993Feb8.130346.2043@black.ox.ac.uk> wa95003@oxford.ac.uk (Martin J Bligh) writes:
>Wouldn't it be easier to have a new magic number for a compressed binary,
>and then decompress them on the fly as they are loaded up?

You have to uncompress these binaries also when tools like nm
or a debugger is applied to them. Not a simple task, I think.

Kristian 

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