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DOS/32a: utility to extract Linear Compressed (LC) files? (Users)

posted by Guti Homepage, 28.09.2022, 07:20

> The DOS/32 Advanced extender is a great replacement for DOS4G/w, but files
> compressed with its SC compressor utility can't be decompressed (easily).
> Unfortunately, the SC utility is a very bad compressor. UPX greatly
> outperforms and offers much, much tighter compression, *and* can decompress
> the produced executables.
>
> Is there any utility or program that can easily decompress the compressed
> DOS/32a executables? My aim is to recompress these executables in order to
> save ~30-50% disk space over the inefficient compression which SC.EXE
> offers. The claim is that such LC files are "unextractable" but I'm sure
> someone has found a way. I've looked and can find no such utility, however,
> but perhaps I missed it back in the day?
Just as an OT, it seems that official site for DOS32/A is dead: https://dos32a.narechk.net/

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