Re: Why is "thebat.exe" from tb142f.zip so big?

[Andrey G. Sergeev (AKA Andris)]

Hello!


Friday, May 12, 2000, 21:28, SyP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

MH>>   I downloaded tb142f.zip, and found that it only contains
MH>>   thebat.exe

MH>>   This is a 3,179 KB file, in contrast to the 1,679 KB file of TB!
MH>>   1.42c executable.

S> If you liked the smaller executable, download UPX from http://upx.tsx.org !
S> It's a freeware, open source, executable compressor.
S> (And also can be used for commercial purposes)

Of course _you_ can save some amount of *your* disk space but you're
doing such a things as compressing executables at your own risk. Some
software developers (I don't mind TB! developers here) are continue
using direct access to their own executables for some well-known and
also private :-) and hard to explain purposes. Moreover, the compression
technique can lead to some problems with antivirus and other protective
software. As said by Steve Lamb in this thread, compressing executables
doesn't actually compress them in memory. IMHO this compression is a
truly waste of time and money. Personally I don't ever want to
investigate application crashes and "gluks" (a Russian neologism)
invoked by decompressors etc.


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Best regards,

Andrey G. Sergeev (AKA Andris)     http://www.andris.msk.ru/

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