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Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer
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The Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
Copyright (c) 1996-2001 Markus Oberhumer & Laszlo Molnar
http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/upx.html
http://upx.tsx.org
Copyright (c) 1996-2002 Markus Oberhumer & Laszlo Molnar
http://upx.sourceforge.net
WARNING - UNSTABLE BETA VERSION
===============================
All versions 1.1x are unstable beta releases - use them only for testing,
All versions 1.9x are unstable beta releases - use them only for testing,
and never distribute a program that is packed with them !
There will be hidden bugs. Really.
The current stable release is 1.06, and the next stable release
will be called version 1.20.
The current stable release is 1.22, and the next stable release
will be called version 2.00.
The main news since 1.06 are support for bootable Linux kernels ("vmlinuz/386")
The main news since 1.22 are support for bootable Linux kernels ("vmlinuz/386")
and direct Linux ELF-to-memory decompression ("linux/elf386"), so there's
no reason to use the unstable versions unless you want to try the new formats.
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WELCOME
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Welcome to UPX 1.0, the first production release after almost two years
of beta testing.
Welcome to UPX !
Please don't forget to read the new LICENSE - UPX is now distributed
Please don't forget to read the file LICENSE - UPX is distributed
under the GNU General Public License (GPL) with special exceptions
allowing the distribution of all compressed executables, including
commercial programs.
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of the supported formats.
UPX supports a number of different executable formats, including
Win95/98/ME/NT/2000 programs and DLLs, DOS programs, and Linux
executables and kernels.
Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP programs and DLLs, DOS programs,
and Linux executables and kernels.
UPX is free software distributed under the term of the GNU General
Public License. Full source code is available.
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See the UPX License Agreement for details.
UPX is rated number one in the well known Archive Comparison Test. Visit
http://web.act.by.net/~act/act-exepack.html
http://compression.ca/ .
UPX aims to be Commercial Quality Freeware.
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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 2 years since our first public beta.
actually it's more than 4 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.
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COPYRIGHT
=========
Copyright (C) 1996-2001 Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer
Copyright (C) 1996-2001 Laszlo Molnar
Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer
Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Laszlo Molnar
This program may be used freely, and you are welcome to
redistribute it under certain conditions.