Re: [Freedos-devel] UPX and XFDISK (was: EXE2BIN)

2011-07-30 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 30-7-2011 1:57, Rugxulo schreef: Hi, I found a 1 byte patch to make xfdisk UPXable :-) Use a hex editor and change the byte at fba0 from 75 to eb: 000fb90: 009a c20e 7310 bfee 051e 57e8 0b5a 08c0 000fba0: eb28 bf08 0d1e 579a 4008 7310 bf08 0d1e -** done :-) 000fbb0: 57bf 92d7

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-30 Thread dos386
OK, obsolete WDE is on the CD in FREEDOS\3RDPARTY ... The CD has a strange and obsolete kernel: - NOT UPX'ed - 2040 from May-25 The floppy DOES have kernel 2040 ... but I really would kick anything except 2040 and maybe 2038 and maybe 2036 (as from 1.0 distro). No need for 2039 or even

Re: [Freedos-devel] UPX and XFDISK (was: EXE2BIN)

2011-07-30 Thread dos386
As for UPX terms, I could try LZMA and Ultra Brute settings indeed, but wonder what effect (decompression possible at all? loading times? memory uses? does resulting binary work?) they have on ancient machines. 2011-07-11 Michael B. Brutman mbbrut...@brutman.com wrote: I tested UPX on one of

Re: [Freedos-devel] UPX and XFDISK (was: EXE2BIN)

2011-07-30 Thread dos386
PS: I really prefer binaries NON-UPX'ed -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-30 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 30-7-2011 15:08, dos386 schreef: OK, obsolete WDE is on the CD in FREEDOS\3RDPARTY ... I remember adding that (just like EXTRACT for bootdisk contents under Windows), just can't think of any purpose/use that I added it for, anymore. Will be removed then. If anyone knows a rather universal

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-30 Thread dos386
Will be removed then. WDE is cool, but version 0.30 please :-) Internet-based installation of FD1.1 possible through packet driver, DHCP program and HTGET/FTP (not WGET, size constraints). VMware-specific so I hope it will work on real PC too :-) -- ~~~ wow ~~~

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-30 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 30-7-2011 15:42, dos386 schreef: Will be removed then. WDE is cool, but version 0.30 please :-) I'll have a look. Internet-based installation of FD1.1 possible through packet driver, DHCP program and HTGET/FTP (not WGET, size constraints). VMware-specific so I hope it will work on

Re: [Freedos-devel] UPX and XFDISK (was: EXE2BIN)

2011-07-30 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 30-7-2011 15:29, dos386 schreef: I tested UPX on one of the slowest machines that I have that has a hard drive. On a PCjr with a NEC V20 and XT-IDE adapter UPX compressed executables worked, but they took noticeably longer to start up: FTPSRV: original was 2 seconds, with UPX is 5 seconds

Re: [Freedos-devel] UPX and XFDISK (was: EXE2BIN)

2011-07-30 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: Mailing me an uncompressed adjusted binary is welcome. Here it is (w/ srcs and one-byte diff): https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/XFDISK.ZIP?attredirects=0d=1 As for UPX terms, I could try LZMA and Ultra Brute