Re: [Freedos-user] UPX compression, was FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

2005-10-13 Thread Michael Devore
At 02:27 PM 10/11/2005 -0700, Blair Campbell wrote: bypassed. After three days of on-and-off hacking on it, I built a mutant UPX 1.25 to compress EMM386.EXE and HIMEM.EXE to work both as a device driver and as a stand-alone EXE file. As almost always is the case, the actual changes were

Re: [Freedos-user] UPX compression, was FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

2005-10-12 Thread Michael Devore
At 11:25 PM 10/11/2005 +0200, Bernd Blaauw wrote: Markus Oberhumer seems to have his own website and seems quite active. Maybe he's interested in your patch. It's not in a good patch form consistently matching the rest of the source, but rather a basic hack to make things work. Also, it

Re: [Freedos-user] UPX compression, was FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

2005-10-12 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Blair Campbell schreef: minutes. Doubtful they'd be interested in a patch that wasn't good to insert as-is at the time of submission. Can you at least make it available for compressing other things like Turbo disk? here's the patch/hack, get UPX sources from CVS yourself somehow and

Re: [Freedos-user] UPX compression, was FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

2005-10-12 Thread Blair Campbell
minutes. Doubtful they'd be interested in a patch that wasn't good to insert as-is at the time of submission. Can you at least make it available for compressing other things like Turbo disk? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power

Re: [Freedos-user] UPX compression, was FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

2005-10-12 Thread Blair Campbell
bypassed. After three days of on-and-off hacking on it, I built a mutant UPX 1.25 to compress EMM386.EXE and HIMEM.EXE to work both as a device driver and as a stand-alone EXE file. As almost always is the case, the actual changes were small, figuring them out was the hard part. Where

[Freedos-user] UPX compression, was FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

2005-10-11 Thread Michael Devore
At 12:39 AM 10/11/2005 +0200, Bernd Blaauw wrote: Again a nice theoretic discussion :) Anyway, are FreeDOS related programs and drivers also ment to be used on MSDOS or not as partial replacement? The drivers could be used on MS-DOS freely, it is only the control programs which would extend

Re: [Freedos-user] UPX compression, was FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

2005-10-11 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Michael Devore schreef: However, a lot of the associated 386-level griping may now be bypassed. After three days of on-and-off hacking on it, I built a mutant UPX 1.25 to compress EMM386.EXE and HIMEM.EXE to work both as a device driver and as a stand-alone EXE file. As almost always is the