Subj : PKLITE
To   : Tegularius
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Oct 18 2005 20:14:00

  Re: PKLITE
  By: Tegularius to All on Tue Oct 18 2005 12:31 am

 > I was playing with a little old program that displays the ascii content of
 > binary files.  After PKlitening it, it would no longer redirect its output t
 > a file unless one followed the other arguments immediately with ">" (without
 > any intervening spaces).
 > 
 > After years of using PKlite, this is the first time I've ever noticed any
 > difference that it causes in a program's behavior.
 > 
 > It's certainly not an important issue anymore, if it ever was, and these
 > compressors hardly ever work anymore on today's large .EXE files.  But it's
 > curious because I'd never run into a difference before (given, of course, a
 > file that PKlite didn't warn it probably couldn't handle).
 > 
 > Has anyone else found such cases?

With the disk space available today, I can't imagine why you would pklite any
thing. Anyway, the answer most definitely lies in the environment in which
you're running the pklite'd executable. If you ran it in a natural DOS
environment, I'm sure it would display just fine. However, if you're runninng
under cmd.exe->NTVDM, then the output most likely won't be displayed easily.
Try running it from command.com instead.

                                                  digital man

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