Title: Discottery
Short: Create self-extracting archives (v3.00)
ShortName: discott.arc
Author: Phil Norman (P.C.F.Norman@exeter.ac.uk)
Date: 10-feb-96
Status: Freeware
Archiver: SparkFS
Size:

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Description:

!Dicottery is an application written by me (though not quite finished), which
produces a BASIC file from any application or directory.  When you run this
BASIC file, it will produce an exact copy of the original app or dir in the
current directory.  The BASIC file is compressed, and so this results in a
way of distributing your software that is easy and quick to produce, and also
easy and quick to decompress once the end user has it.  To produce the
compressed BASIC prog, simply drag an application or dir onto the icon bar
icon, and drag the BASIC file off.  To decompress, simply double-click on the
BASIC prog.  To give you an idea of speed, I tried Dicottery and !ArcFS out
with !Zap.  Dicottery took 22 seconds to compress it, and it took 53s for
the BASIC prog to produce the final prog.  ArcFS took 135s to compress, and
37 to decompress.  Also, ArcFS costs about £25, while Dicottery is free!