From: Charles Sandmann Subject: Re: Compressed executables To: UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU (Aaron Ucko) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 17:35:36 -0600 (CST) Cc: jensen AT nora DOT gih DOT no, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu > Interesting idea, but I'm fairly sure DJGPP currently does some sort of > demand loading when it uses its own extender (as opposed to DPMI); > compression would tend to break this technique, unless executables were > uncompressed to a temp. directory first, which would increase load time. > A more sophisticated tcx-like solution might almost be feasible, but the > appropriate TSR would probably be a bit tricky to write. Since V2 does not demand load anymore, appropriate modifications to the stub could make this a reality.