[plug] Mini-ITX Systems...

[Cameron Patrick]

On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 17:42:24 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:

| Does anybody on list know of an "internal compression" system for 
| binaries for linux? You know, you run a program over a binary and it 
| wraps the original in a simple program that decompresses the real binary 
| into memory? Or is that just not worth it when you can use gzip directly 
| from a shell script?

gzexe (comes with gzip) does this.  I've never used it, but it looks like
it makes a shell-script which calls gzip to decompress itself into /tmp,
and runs the resulting executable.

CP.