From: not.my.real@email.address   
      
   Harry Potter wrote:   
      
   > Hi!  I used to have a Win98SE minitower at my mother's house whose hard   
   > drive was very small: even though the size was a little more than 20GB,   
   > only 2.1GB worked.  :(  I had a program on it called AppZip.  It's a way   
   > to keep applications compressed and decompress them temporarily upon   
   > access.  It didn't work on that computer.  :(  So, I used batch files to   
   > do the job.  They used 7Zip.  They worked.  :)  Recently, I got a new   
   > Win98SE minitower for free. :)  I didn't need them anymore.  The old   
   > minitower is still there but is disconnected.  I have a Zip disk with   
   > some stuff I extracted from the old computer's hard drive but don't   
   > think the batch files are on that disk.  :(  BTW, I used Template   
   > Creator for Windows to create the new batch files.   
      
   So, just to make sure I understand the issue:   
   - You had a program that compressed programs and decompressed them on   
   demand.   
   - The app doesn't work for you any more.   
   - You are able to decompress the compressed programs using 7-Zip.   
      
   If I'm right, then it seems to me the best thing to do would be to   
   decompress the programs and leave them decompressed. If that's not what you   
   want, then decompress the programs and recompress them with UPX:   
      
     https://upx.github.io/   
      
   It's the same concept, and it's very efficient. Programs are compressed on   
   disk and dynamically decompressed in memory. It's what I would use if I were   
   in a similar situation.   
      
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   You were in my way once. Do not tempt me a second time.   
      
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