From: Alexander Lehmann <lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: pklite on ../bin
Date: 11 Nov 1996 20:07:32 GMT
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Bob Nelson <bnelson AT netcom DOT com> wrote:
: I searched all of the info files (as well as the FAQ) to get
: confirmation on what experience has shown:

: PKLITE (Katz's executable file "compression" utility) should not
: be run on any of the "stubified" files produced by DJGPP, including
: but not limited to, those provided in the distribution's bin/
: directory.

: Anyone wish to relate an experience that shows otherwise?

No.

Use mlp104 instead. PKLITE only works with real mode DOS programs (at
least the version that is commonly used does, I think their WWW page
also advertises something that can handle DLLs etc), so djgpp, Watcom,
BC DPMI etc. programs are not working, I think. It will just compress
the stub and ignore the rest.

Even if they were working, since mlp uses a pretty fast asm
decompression function in protected mode, it should be faster than
pklite anyway.


bye, Alexander

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