Subj : PKLITE
To   : All
From : Tegularius
Date : Tue Oct 18 2005 01:31:00

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 to
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?

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