Re: mscompress
>
> --- Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu January 24 2008, Angus Auld wrote:
>> > Thanks for your reply Paul. So, if I understand, a
>> > windows binary
>> > installation package .exe isn't like a nix binary
>> like
>> > .deb or .rpm?
>>
>> not exactly. look for the homepage, maybe it
>> explains better:
>>
>> MsCompress for Windows
>>
>> MsCompress: compress data using LZ77 algorithm
>> Version
>>
>> 0.3
>> Description
>>
>> MsCompress is a Microsoft "compress.exe/expand.exe"
>> compatible (de)compressor.
>> This package contains two programs:
>>
>> * msexpand, which decompresses files compressed
>> by Microsoft compress.exe
>> utility (e.g. Win 3.x installation files)
>> * mscompress, which compresses files using LZ77
>> compression algorithm.
>> Output files can be decompressed using Microsoft
>> expand.exe or msexpand(1).
>>
>> Homepage
>>
>> ftp://ftp.penguin.cz/pub/users/mhi/mscompress
>>
>>
>> > I thought it was, well sort of anyway.
>> > What exactly is mscompress/msexpand supposed to
>> do?
>> >
>> > I want to extract some icons from an
>> MSN_Messenger.exe
>> >
>> > binary package. Is there no way to do that?
>>
>> no, you don't extract icons from an EXE. try google:
>> icons msn messenger
>> I got this site ( for one):
>>
>> http://www.msnicon.com/
>>
>> it has 3,000 icons
>> >
>> > Sorry if I have misunderstood.
>>
>> no need to be sorry, we are all learning here!
>>
>>
>> --
>> Paul Cartwright
>> Registered Linux user # 367800
>> Registered Ubuntu User #12459
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> Thanks Paul for the help. I sort of wanted to look
> inside of an exe,
> as I am rather curious about such things. I thought
> maybe I could
> find some nice icons while in there.
>
> Thanks for the link to the site as well. It should
> more than satisfy
> may iconic (?) needs.
>
> I can't seem to find very much info about mscompress,
> and what
> it does or how to use it. That seems strange to me.
> I have searched quite a bit, but remain in the dark
> more or less
> about it.
> The link you provided to the mscompress homepage is
> requiring
> login. I tried as "guest", but it was no go.
> I found this listed as homepage of mscompress from
> freshmeat.net:
>
> http://martin.hinner.info/mscompress/
>
> But, there is little info of help there either.
> Mysterious.
>
> Thanks again.
> Regards.
>
> -- Angus
>
> ######Linux Laptop powered by Debian Linux######
> ###########Reg. Linux User #278931###########
Angus
To find out how the mscompress works google LZ77 or merely Lempel-Ziv
compression (this is the Lempel-Ziv compression algorithm-it has been used
in multiple compression schemes since it is in the public domain)
Larry
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