SCRNCH

File Format
Name	SCRNCH
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Compression Executable compression SCRNCH
Released	1988

SCRNCH is a file compression utility for DOS. It can do executable compression of .COM files, and can create self-extracting files. It was developed by Graeme W. McRae, and distributed as shareware.

Identification

SCRNCHed files are .COM files. [More research needed. TrID has signatures (→ TrIDScan → TrID XML defs (7Z) → com-scrnch.trid.xml), but as of this writing, they don't seem very robust.]

Related formats

• ZIP - Reportedly[1], ZIP's Reduce compression method is based on SCRNCH's compression method.

Software

• SCRNCH v1.00 (1988-01-31)
• SCRNCH v1.02 (1988-03-28 / 1988-04-04)