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'''Cruncher''' is an executable compression utility for DOS, developed by Ori Berger. It compresses [[MS-DOS EXE|EXE]] files (to EXE), and [[DOS executable (.com)|COM]] files (converting them to EXE).<br />
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The documentation implies that it uses [[LZW]] compression.<br />
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== Identification ==<br />
Based on limited testing, files compressed by v1.0 have the ASCII signature "{{magic|CRUNCH}}" at offset 771. Or maybe a better rule would be that the signature starts 18 bytes before the ''entry point'' (refer to [[MS-DOS EXE#Special file positions]]).<br />
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== Software ==<br />
* {{CdTextfiles|simtel/simtel20/MSDOS/EXECOMP/CRUNCH10.ZIP|Cruncher v1.0}}</div>Jsummers