PACK reduces the size of EXE files by packing the EXE header table
into a smaller structure. It does so by using its own fixup relocator,
and building a table of fixups without redundant segment
information as occurs in the DOS standard format.
PACK will also report how much space it could save by run-length
encoding repeated byte sequences. To see this effect, set the
constant ShowRLEeffect to True. PACK does not actually implement
this kind of packing at this time.
PACK works in a manner similar to EXEPACK (from Microsoft) and
SPMAKER (from Realia).
After compiling, just enter PACK to get directions for usage.
Version 1.0.
Written 11/87, Kim Kokkonen, TurboPower Software.
Compuserve 72457,2131.
Released to the public domain.
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