This 'Wonderful' compression technology maybe "Awesome"; however, MY main
objection ....or perhaps philosophy towards all of this is that Prime95 is
not a large
piece of code. It takes a relatively small amount of time to download over
a modem
compared to other software items that we modem users may download in a weeks
period.
Maybe if Prime95 was ..say .. a 20MB download. Then perhaps shaking things
up to save
some download time would be a good idea, but as things stand now we are only
talking about saving 20 or so seconds. Perhaps that is the reason people
may find it 'objectionable'..
Maybe its just not worth the hassle at the moment for this particular
application....
- Jeramy A. Ross
> Well, any platform that can run Prime95's code (Win32/PE) will run a
packed
> Prime95, so I don't see platform dependence issues here. The compression
is
> completely transparent, and I don't understand your objection. The
> executable itself is still standalone, and for distribution must be ZIPped
> up with the other ancilliary files.
>
> Stephan T. Lavavej
>
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