Re: LZ: New idea for compression program!


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Re: LZ: New idea for compression program!



At 08:03 PM 9/11/96 -0500, you wrote:
>On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Tony Lieuallen wrote:
>
>> A workaround for PROGRAM_ADDR changing:
>> 
>> 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.
>


Yes, everything will need that address, but when you CALL a program, won't
zshell handle the program_addr for you?  That is how I thought it worked.


--	Scott Rein
	srein@rain.org


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