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

2005-10-13 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Michael Devore escribió: 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

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

2005-10-13 Thread Michael Devore
At 04:02 AM 10/13/2005 -0500, I wrote: I have uploaded a file called mods-upx125-dos.zip in directory ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386 which contains the two modified files, p_exe.cpp and l_exe.asm. These changes were used to compress HIMEM and EMM386 with revised UPX 1.25. They have

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

2005-10-13 Thread Blair Campbell
> Since you are eager for the mutation, I have uploaded a file called > mods-upx125-dos.zip in directory ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386 > which contains the two modified files, p_exe.cpp and l_exe.asm. These I now have an exe compiled with DJGPP if anyone wants it.

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 wer

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 is

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 Arc

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

2005-10-12 Thread Michael Devore
At 01:11 PM 10/12/2005 -0700, Blair Campbell wrote: > 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? When I post next release HIMEM and EMM386 (n

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 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 forc

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