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+
+                    The Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
+          Copyright (c) 1996-2000 Markus Oberhumer & Laszlo Molnar
+               http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/upx.html
+                          http://www.nexus.hu/upx
+                            http://upx.tsx.org
+
+
+Here are some possible projects from which you can choose if you'd like to
+contribute to UPX. Be sure to get in touch with us first to avoid
+duplicate efforts.
+
+
+User interface:
+---------------
+
+ - Write a nifty Win32 GUI (in C++), but try to keep the size of the
+   final executable small. Compression should be in a separate
+   thread that calls do_one_file() [see src/work.cpp].
+
+ - Draw a nice UPX icon.
+
+
+More formats:
+-------------
+
+ - add more file formats / platforms (there were volunteers for FreeBSD,
+   BeOS, Windows CE, Amiga, C64, ...)
+
+ - add support for Linux kernels
+
+ - add support for self-extracting HTML pages using a Javascript stub
+   (like the AlgART HTML Packer "AHP")
+
+
+Existing formats:
+-----------------
+
+ - dos/com: add support for very long files - convert to exe if necessary
+
+ - dos/sys: add support for sys/exe combos
+
+ - dos/exe: implement filter support
+
+ - djgpp2/coff: add support for DLX dynamic loading
+     (see SEAL http://www.home.sk/public/seal/ )
+
+ - linux/i386:
+     - add support for compressed kernels
+     - use the new assembly preprocessor stuff (ie. process the file
+       headers internally)
+     - UPX uncompressor daemon
+     - rewrite the stub in assembly (not sure if this is a good idea...)
+     - etc...
+ - linux/i386: add a special elf/i386 format that understands
+     ELF files and has filter support
+
+ - watcom/le: add support for per section compression, LX support, VXD
+
+ - win32/pe: display a nice dialog box in the stub in case
+     of problems (like importing a DLL or function fails)
+ - win32/pe: finer control over resource compression, per section
+     compression
+ - win32/pe: compressing screensavers looses the description - probably
+     should not compress a special resource type
+
+
+Compression ratio:
+------------------
+
+ - invent more effective filters
+
+ - I (Markus) will continue to work on better compression algorithms,
+   so be sure to do better than me if you plan working on this ;-)
+
+
+Other:
+------
+
+ - anything else you think that could improve UPX...
+
+
+Thanks for your contribution.
+