Re: LZ: New idea for compression program!

Subject: Re: LZ: New idea for compression program!
From: Tony Lieuallen <marvin@saturn.superlink.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:08:43 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.960911200007.23549E-100000@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>

On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, barrym wrote:


> > decompress the program, call it from within the self-extracting one, and when
> > the extracted one ends, then delete it, then return to zshell.
> Isn't PROGRAM_ADDR the address in zshell that contains the
> offset of the executing program?  All the decompressed programs
> internal calls and direct jumps will need that address if thats
> what it is, and it'll need it's own address, not the address
> of the decompressor, which is what PROGRAM_ADDR will contain.
> Unless I misunderstand about PROGRAM_ADDR, which is entirely
> possible.


Yeah, it was my mistake, nevermind...


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