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WELCOME
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Welcome to UPX !
INTRODUCTION
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UPX is free software distributed under the term of the GNU General
Public License. Full source code is available.
UPX may be distributed and used freely, even with commercial applications.
See the UPX License Agreement for details.
UPX is rated number one in the well known Archive Comparison Test. Visit
http://compression.ca/ .
SHORT DOCUMENTATION
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DISCLAIMER
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UPX comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details see the file LICENSE.
Having said that, we think that UPX is quite stable now. Indeed we
have compressed lots of files without any problems. Also, the
current version has undergone several months of beta testing -
actually it's almost 8 years since our first public beta.
This is the first production quality release, and we plan that future
releases will be backward compatible with this version.
THE FUTURE
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- We'd really love to support handheld systems like the PalmPilot because
compression makes a lot of sense here. And - because of the atari/tos
format - we already have a working decompressor in 68000 assembly.
Unfortunately we know next to nothing about the operating system
architecture of such handhelds, so we need some information from
an expert. Please contact us if you think you can help.
- The Linux approach could probably get ported to a lot of other Unix
variants, at least for other i386 architectures it shouldn't be too
much work. If someone sends me a fresh hard disk and an official
FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD/Solaris/BeOS... CD I might take a look at it ;-)
- See the file PROJECTS in the source code distribution if you want
to contribute.
COPYRIGHT
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You should have received a copy of the UPX License Agreement along
with this program; see the file LICENSE. If not, visit the UPX home page.
[ The term UPX is a shorthand for the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
and holds no connection with potential owners of registered trademarks
or other rights. ]