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UPX - Executable packer

UPX is a portable, extendable, high-performance executable packer for several different executable formats. It achieves an excellent compression ratio and offers very fast decompression. Your executables suffer no memory overhead or other drawbacks. UPX supports vmlinuz/386, linux/elf386, linux/386, djgpp2/coff, and many more.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://upx.sourceforge.net/
Source tarballhttp://upx.sourceforge.net/download/upx-1.25-src.tar.gz
Version 1.25 (stable) released on 2004-06-30
Version 1.92 (devel) released on 2004-07-20
Licensed under GPLv2orlater with exception.
This is not a GNU package.

Support contacts

Help Listhttp://upx.sourceforge.net/phpBB/
Developer Listhttp://upx.sourceforge.net/phpBB/
Bug Listhttp://upx.sourceforge.net/phpBB/viewforum.php?f=14

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Related information

Interfacescommand line
Source languagesAssembly, C++
Use requirementsUCL

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-11-13
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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