DOS ain't dead

Haven't seen this mentioned, but since it's been out for a couple of weeks now, i thought i would:

12 Dec 2011: UPX 3.08 has been released. It is a minor 3.0x maintenance release to version 3 whose major additions were:

 * optional LZMA compression
 * support for BSD systems

http://upx.sourceforge.net/

- Doug B.

> Haven't seen this mentioned, but since it's been out for a couple of weeks
> now, i thought i would:
>
> 12 Dec 2011: UPX 3.08 has been released. It is a minor 3.0x maintenance
> release to version 3 whose major additions were:
>
> * optional LZMA compression
> * support for BSD systems
>
> http://upx.sourceforge.net/
>
> - Doug B.

Most excellent - I have been using UPX to compress binaries that I distribute for DOS and it has been flawless on every machine (virtual or otherwise) that I use. Make sure to never remove the 8086 DOS support!

Regards,
Mike

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mTCP - TCP/IP apps for vintage DOS machines!
http://www.brutman.com/mTCP

> > Haven't seen this mentioned, but since it's been out for a couple of
> weeks
> >
> > 12 Dec 2011: UPX 3.08 has been released.
> >
> > http://upx.sourceforge.net/

I saw it, but I haven't tried compiling UPX-UCL yet.

http://upx.sourceforge.net/upx-news.txt


Changes in 3.08 (12 Dec 2011):
  * Fix allocation in runtime stub for darwin.macho-entry (i386 and amd64).
  * Compress shared library on ELF i386 only [ld.so threatens even this case].
  * Attempt to support ELF on QNX 6.3.0 for armel (experimental).
  * Better diagnostic when ELF -fPIC is needed.
  * PT_NOTE improvements for *BSD.
  * Preserve more ELF .e_flags on ARM.
  * Minor code improvements for ELF stubs.
  * Defend against another flavor of corrupt PE header.
  * bug fixes


(In other words, not a lot of DOS action.)