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From:	terra AT diku DOT dk (Morten Welinder)
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Subject:	Re: Idea: compressed COFF
Date:	10 Aug 1995 18:34:51 GMT
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mat AT ardi DOT com (Mat Hostetter) writes:

>Interestingly, gzip is GPL'd, but "inflate.c" in the gzip distribution
>is prefaced with:

>/* inflate.c -- Not copyrighted 1992 by Mark Adler
>   version c10p1, 10 January 1993 */

>/* You can do whatever you like with this source file, though I would
>   prefer that if you modify it and redistribute it that you include
>   comments to that effect with your name and the date.  Thank you.
>   [The history has been moved to the file ChangeLog.]
> */

>Rewriting this code in djasm would be tough.  It would be nice to be
>able to link this C code into the executable (uncompressed of course),
>and let it uncompress the rest of the binary from protected mode.

We can link 32 bit code generated by gcc into the stub.  (djasm can
link-in coff object files.)  I don't see anything very difficult in
this approach, just more work as usual.

Morten

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