Re: Reducing FF-made filters filesize...

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Aspack  or Asspack
I've tested few versions 1.04, 1.08, 1.081 and the latest of this little proggie.

My experience tells me to give it a miss!!

With it I compressed more than few ff. Following this, I went to reload them into my favourite graphic tool and voila! They failed miserably to load. God knows what it messed up with but I do not read computer characters.
Certainly it re written the codes hence the mess.

Lucky if you did not uncheck the bak option:-)

Little wonder this Gospodin! keeps on churning new versions every fornight or so. He still wants $29 smacaroons for a single rego!

He still claims of his proggie to be antihacker, anticracker hehe!
Perhaps he should ask Ivan....lo to have a go hehe!  
Get rich quick scheme!!!? Forgive me but he seems to learning from other people misfortunes... Da? 

Aspack for me? Nyet nye nada!Spasiva!


Rick
"gaucho australiano"


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>From: "Ilya Razmanov" <ilyich@cacr.ioc.ac.ru>
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>Subject: Reducing FF-made filters filesize...
>Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 17:06:23 +0400
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>Hi folks,
>
>I found one interesting program not directly related to FF but probably of
>great interest (at least definitely of interest for me). It's called ASPack
>and the home page is http://www.alenka.spb.ru/aspack/ (it's told to be
>shareware. At least the first version I've found at
>ftp://ftp.freeware.ru/pub/mycomputer/misc/aspack.exe is claimed to be free
>for non-commercial use. I gonna check out the advanced one also...) The
>program perform the executable file compression. The only drawback is that
>you need to enter 8bf extension every time (since the program assume only
>exe and dll and ocx are executables), so you simply drag your program and
>drop it onto ASPack and - viola! - the program is compressed. I've tested
>it onto my FF-made filters and it reduce them from 56k to 28k! And all the
>filters still work absolutely ok!!! Bad thing, FF cannot be compressed - oh
>well it can and it even launch, but crashes Photoshop on compiling new
>filter... but anyway, I assume halving every filter in filesize is so cool
>(especially for ones having hundreds of them) I ran to tell you...
>
>The only drawback I've found so far is that it reduces the efficiency of
>subsequent advanced RAR compression (I've found self-extracting RAR
>archives to be the most appropriate for distribution - only pico ffl files
>are more compact <g>), but not too much. That means users download a bit
>larger archive but then they save 50% of disk space on filters themselves.
>
>Ilyich.
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