Talk:Executable compression

Lzexe

The article should mention that "LZEXE" (written by some young kid in France nobody had ever heard of before) pretty much single-handedly invented this category of programs (at least as far as widespread use on microcomputers goes), leaving PKWARE and the others hurrying to catch up... AnonMoos 09:38, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, it did not. Fabrice Bellard wrote this program in 1989-1990 (according to his own website), at which time executable compressors had already been used routinely for several years by e.g. cracker and groups on the C-64. Viznut (talk) 11:26, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merge

Support

Yes, Exe Packers and Executable compression should be merged -- they are synonoms. The Exe Packers article seems much better maintained and descriptive than does this one. --db90h 08:44, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Squilibob 07:24, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Merge. --DCrazy talk/contrib 14:20, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Merge -- Taral 08:30, 4 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

Neutral

Would you be so kind to mention also applications which are able to detect these often bad used exepacker/compressors ? For example, see at http://www.z80.eu/otherdelphi.html ... there is an application which is able to find these files in a generic way also. Please consider this. Thank you. PeterSmith123 (talk) 11:38, 15 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

FSG

The external hyperlink on FSG is not helpful. It leads to a page which seems not related to anything similar to FSG. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.86.142.7 (talk) 14:34, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Good catch, link changed. --HamburgerRadio (talk) 17:43, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]