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moogle wrote:However if I'm doing it so wrong you wouldn't mind compressing it for me then would you? Doubt that you can

UserOfPure wrote::roll: Sure I can. Post the exe somewhere and I'll compress it and send it back. Your move. (Note: I might ask for the source code too, in case you try something sneaky to stop me).

moogle wrote:the exe I was trying to compress was too small

UserOfPure wrote:

moogle wrote:the exe I was trying to compress was too small

Hmm, well the frontend you're using is still not using UPX correctly, because I just used UPX to compress a 3 KB executable and it became 2.50 KB, so if it works on something that small, then your frontend is obviously using a pre-set size limit and refusing to compress anything smaller.

moogle wrote:

UserOfPure wrote:You're doing something wrong, then. All PB apps compress quite well, like any normal exe.

Sure...

How can I do it wrong with a frontend?

How do you do it then?

I even tried via command line upx.exe -4 file.exe and it fails

However if I'm doing it so wrong you wouldn't mind compressing it for me then would you? Doubt that you can

upx -9 -o"<INSERT FULL PATH TO OUTPUT FILE>OutputFile.exe" "<INSERT FULL PATH TO FILE>file.exe"

eg.

upx -9 -o"C:\Documents and Settings\moogle\Desktop\OutputFile.exe" "C:\Documents and Settings\moogle\Desktop\FileToCompress.exe"

moogle wrote:

UserOfPure wrote:

moogle wrote:the exe I was trying to compress was too small

Hmm, well the frontend you're using is still not using UPX correctly, because I just used UPX to compress a 3 KB executable and it became 2.50 KB, so if it works on something that small, then your frontend is obviously using a pre-set size limit and refusing to compress anything smaller.

Hmm really?

Well it's PureUPX made by gnozal (I think?)

I get NotCompressibleException as an error from the commandline one.

LuCiFeR[SD] wrote:Are you trying to compress an already compressed exe?

LuCiFeR[SD] wrote:I would say you were doing something wrong myself....

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Moogle>cd ..

C:\Users>cd ..

C:\>cd upx304w

C:\upx304w>
C:\upx304w>upx -9 -o"C:\OutputFile.exe" "C:\upx304w\PressBot.exe"
                       Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
                          Copyright (C) 1996 - 2009
UPX 3.04w       Markus Oberhumer, Laszlo Molnar & John Reiser   Sep 27th 2009

        File size         Ratio      Format      Name
   --------------------   ------   -----------   -----------
upx: C:\upx304w\PressBot.exe: NotCompressibleException

Packed 1 file: 0 ok, 1 error.

C:\upx304w>

Trying to convert an old piece of code that did compress so I can compile it under 4.4b7 to see if it still compresses.

LuCiFeR[SD] wrote:

Trying to convert an old piece of code that did compress so I can compile it under 4.4b7 to see if it still compresses.

yeah, I just tried to compress a really small 3KB file and it failed too. It was just a message requester. So, it looks like you were correct moogle, it is just down to filesize. Even with the force flag it failed to compress. So I guess I should swallow a little humbe pie here and apologise LOL

PECompact worked ok with it though, even though it did make the filesize larger... which is pretty pointless lol

UserOfPure wrote:Can you post the PressBot.exe somewhere so we can see it?

LuCiFeR[SD] wrote:I just tried to compress a really small 3KB file and it failed too. It was just a message requester

MessageRequester("hi","hi")