how do i compress a file from my application using upx after i've downloaded it???
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UPX is a command-line tool. Read the docs!
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Go to the following site and download a program called Jazz-UPX. Jazz-UPX is a Graphical User Interface for UPX.
It allows you to drag a file to a target zone, click "Process" and voila your file is compressed, or decompressed or whatever with a bunch of radio button options...cannot get more simple than this.
The really nice thing with Jazz-UPX is that you can also compress all .dll and .exe files in a directory (recursing subdirectories too). Just click on the top right hand side "Mutliple files" and chose the disk drive (or USB drive) at the bottom, click on the folder you want to compress, click "Include subfolders" if you want this option, and click "Process" and wait. Voila all your compressible files are compressed.
The software is free.
But really, read the UPX documentation to fully understand what you are doing.
http://www.rtsoftware.org/
It's terribly dated. It includes a six-year-old version of UPX. The Test and Information options are grayed out, and the options --brute and --ultra-brute aren't available. It would be great if it were up-to-date.
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If there were a serial make-up artist putting make-up on random women, you'd expect to see millions of women walking around with make-up on. What do you find? Millions of women walking around with make-up on.
Vintage!
Yea, I wish the GUI was updated as well, but even if it is old, I still use it daily because it works very well.
By the way, I just dropped UPX 3.00w (or any other version -- I was using 2.93wbeta) in the same directory and it works fine with --LZMA as the "Extra Options" You could also use --ultra-brute in the "Extra Options". Extra Options is just a passthrough box for any extra command line parameters (don't forget to put a space after the options).
So until I find a better one that does recursive subdirectory searches...and is portable (did I mention that Jazz-UPX is naturally portable?)...
Cheers.
I hacked some VBScript together to use UPX to compress files recursively thru all subdirectories found in a target directory. It's completely ugly code. If anyone wants to take a look at it (and maybe improve on it) I can upload it to my webserver and post a link.
At one point John said he would hook us up with what he uses to recurse thru all the dirs to UPX stuff. Hmmmmm.
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