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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!titan!trlluna!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!monu6!escargot!minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU!s902113 From: s902113@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Luke Mewburn) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: TCX -- transparent [un]compression of executables Date: 30 Mar 1993 04:11:20 GMT Organization: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Lines: 28 Message-ID: <1p8h98INNjc7@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU> References: <9308509.26865@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <haley.733188816@husc.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au haley@scws3.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley) writes: >Ummm, are you aware that the current release of gzip comes with gzexe, >which does exactly what you say tcx does? Actually, as I understand it, the programs have different functions: gzexe: a shell script which uncompresses a binary on the fly for each execution. tcx: a daemon which recompresses binaries which haven't been accessed for a given time. >I would be interested in a comparison... Yep, so would I. In either case, if gzip -9 is used as the compression method, a lot of disk space can be saved :) >-- >Jesus saves sinners... >/****************************************************************************\ >==============David Charles Todd, tHE mAN wITH tHREE fIRST nAMES============== >I/O Error: core dumped. >\*************************hacksaw@headcheese.daa.uc.edu**********************/ > ...in a shoebox in his mother's attic. -- Luke Mewburn [Zak], <zak@rmit.edu.au> "Lawyers - the only group for which ignorance of the law is not a crime"