Subj : PKLITE
To   : Tegularius
From : The Millionaire
Date : Tue Oct 18 2005 10:09:00

  Re: PKLITE
  By: Tegularius to All on Tue Oct 18 2005 01:31 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?
 > 
Ahhhh. Pklite. Man that program brings back memories. I miss using all these
old dos programs. They were so much fun to use.

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