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August 10, 2007 - 4:59am
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Ryan McCue
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Useful scripts

Thought these might prove useful to you.

The first, upax.bat UPXs everything within the current directory (and subdirectories) with the standard options used by John. You need to put both this and upx.exe in your path somewhere, like C:\WINDOWS\system32
The second, pangout.bat uses pngout to compress all .png files within the current directory (and subdirectories) and automatically answers yes to any questions.
The final, cleanup.bat is a companion for upax.bat and deletes all the backup files (.ex~, .dl~).

To use them, open up the command prompt, cd into the required folder (most likely BlahPortable\App\blah) and type either upax, pangout or cleanup.

Download them here:
http://cubegames.net/downloads/upax.bat
http://cubegames.net/downloads/pangout.bat
http://cubegames.net/downloads/cleanup.bat
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August 10, 2007 - 5:54am
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Why nrv2d ?

Why nrv2d ?

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August 10, 2007 - 8:09am
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I've asked that question of

I've asked that question of John before with no response. nrv2e is newer/more current and --lzma packs way better. Maybe it's the most comapatable and "nicest" method of compressing the files.

Ryan: Why do you have a second file to do cleanup? Do you keep backups "just in case" and then delete them? I assume you know if you ditch the -k switch no backups are kept and then there's no cleanup step. (I now these are the default switches John posted he uses).

Additionally, the following file extensions have been included in apps available here and are executables and can be compressed with UPX also. I find it easier to send all files to UPX and it knows which files are executables or not and compresses the ones it can.

sfx irc acm ax drv qtx qts vwp so

This post isn't intended to be critical (if it comes off that way). Thanx for posting your scripts! Smile

Edit: the pngout.bat file is missing or something. Link broke. (since you're a mopd, delete this line once the link is fixed thank you...no need to put the "edited by RM" statement here either)

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August 10, 2007 - 8:09am
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I've asked that question of John before with no response. nrv2e is newer/more current and --lzma packs way better. Maybe it's the most comapatable and "nicest" method of compressing the files.
Well, I only use the same as John. I think it's because it has a good mix between speed and size.

Why do you have a second file to do cleanup? Do you keep backups "just in case" and then delete them? I assume you know if you ditch the -k switch no backups are kept and then there's no cleanup step.
Correct. I've had many a time when I used the -k switch and had to redownload the app.

Additionally, the following file extensions have been included in apps available here and are executables and can be compressed with UPX also. I find it easier to send all files to UPX and it knows which files are executables or not and compresses the ones it can.
sfx irc acm ax drv qtx qts vwp so
Well, if you want to do that, just change (*.exe,*.dll) to (*.*)
I personally go through every file just to see what it is. If there's one that has an abnormal extension, I manually UPX it.
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August 10, 2007 - 8:14am
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I tried to edit my

I tried to edit my post...you replied b4 I could.

The panout.bat doesn't exist or the link is broken. I get sent to your error page.

please delete this post once it's fixed. Thanx!

Edit: oh wait, the line mentioning panout.bat DID make it into my post...oh well.

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August 10, 2007 - 1:42pm
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the link is shown as going

the link is shown as going to panout.bet, should be pangout.bat.

http://cubegames.net/downloads/pangout.bat work just fine (note the g)

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August 11, 2007 - 11:28pm
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Done

Fixed. Thanks.
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August 10, 2007 - 8:20am
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Well, I only use the same as

Well, I only use the same as John. I think it's because it has a good mix between speed and size.
nrv2e should be as fast as d and sometimes gives better results.

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August 10, 2007 - 2:52pm
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WORD OF WARNING

WORD OF WARNING - Don't use UPX on NSIS launchers... they will become corrupt.

I upx'd my entire PA directory and almost cried when, after then running the cleaners, most of my apps stopped launching.

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August 10, 2007 - 2:59pm
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I upx all my launchers it's

I upx all my launchers Wink it's a command in the nsis script you have to include and it will compile the new launcher with upx compression
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August 10, 2007 - 9:07pm
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Heed Ryan's advice...

...and put the script in the ..\App directory to just compress the application's files and not the launcher.

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August 11, 2007 - 8:30am
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No

To Compress your launcher just add this to the script near the
!define section

;----UPX Compression----
!define HAVE_UPX

!ifdef HAVE_UPX
!packhdr tmpexe.tmp "UPX --best --compress-icons=0 --nrv2d --crp-ms=999999 tmpexe.tmp"
!endif

and it will compress the launcher and still be usable
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August 11, 2007 - 8:34am
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Or you can

disable the crc check and compress it afterwards but I dont think thats recommended.
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August 11, 2007 - 10:03am
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misread

thibeaz: You misread my post. I'm talking about the commandline scripts he posted earlier. If the developer doesn't UPX the launcher your way, it can be UPXd by Ryan's script...which breaks it. If you follow Ryan's advice and only UPX the files in the ..\App directory/subdirs you won't accidentally compress the launcher in the portable software's root directory. If the developer didn't UPX the launcher using your method, the end user can compress it and screw themselves over when it breaks.

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