Message-Id: <199611131013.XAA04799@papaioea.manawatu.gen.nz>
Comments: Authenticated sender is <malcolm AT mail DOT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz>
From: "Malcolm Taylor" <malcolm AT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz>
Organization: Grafik Software
To: "Martin....." <beable AT magna DOT com DOT au>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 23:09:31 +1200
Subject: Re: Smaller distribution archives
Reply-to: malcolm AT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

> Bill Currie wrote:
> > Mark Habersack wrote:
> > > Bill Currie wrote:
> > > > How about mtsquish?
> > > Hmm... I think it's hard to spell smoothly. Maybe MASH (Malcolm's
> > > Advanced System arcHiver)? It spells easily (like 'mash it, please', 'is
> > > it mashed?') and everyone knows the movie and TV series - it will catch
> > > ;-)) I'm serious!
> > 
> > Sounds good to me (I hope your archiver doesn't start spewing shrapnell
> > (sp):).
> > 
> A perfect name. Very catchy and easy to remember.

OK, mash it is. It does have a certain quality about it :)
 
> BTW... Does anyone know if this will have an self extracting option(for
> example make a mash file into a self extracting EXE) or does anyone know
> how you would do such a thing(perhaps some example code somewhere)???

It will, eventually. The low memory use of the algorithm (ie less 
than 2.5Mb for extraction) means that a PMODE stubed self extractor 
will be usable even on a 4Mb machine, and I've not heard of any 
people having a 386+ with less than 4Mb. The only problem with PMODE 
is that I have had it not work on one OS/2 machine (never figured out 
why) but work fine on another. There will also eventually be SFX for 
Win32 and OS/2 at the very least.

Malcolm