Message-ID:	<328A5F70.1951@ananke.amu.edu.pl>
Date:	Thu, 14 Nov 1996 00:53:20 +0100
From:	Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To:	grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
Organization:	Home, sweet home
MIME-Version:	1.0
To:	malcolm AT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz
CC:	"Martin....." <beable AT magna DOT com DOT au>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Smaller distribution archives
References:	<199611131013 DOT XAA04799 AT papaioea DOT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz>

Malcolm Taylor wrote:

> OK, mash it is. It does have a certain quality about it :)
Great! I'm the God Father! Yupiiii!!!

> > BTW... Does anyone know if this will have an self extracting option(for
> > example make a mash file into a self extracting EXE) or does anyone know
> > how you would do such a thing(perhaps some example code somewhere)???
> 
> It will, eventually. The low memory use of the algorithm (ie less
> than 2.5Mb for extraction) means that a PMODE stubed self extractor
> will be usable even on a 4Mb machine, and I've not heard of any
> people having a 386+ with less than 4Mb. The only problem with PMODE
> is that I have had it not work on one OS/2 machine (never figured out
> why) but work fine on another. There will also eventually be SFX for
> Win32 and OS/2 at the very least.
Have you thought about adding a script capability to the SFX? Or at
least the ability to run something at the end of the extraction? BTW.
I'm thinking about writing an SFX module for the old, good ZIP format
with those just mentioned features. Do you guys think it might be needed
by anyone?

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