PKTINY

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Name PKTINY
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Released ≤1995

PKTINY, also written PK-TINY, is an executable compression utility that tries to make life difficult for those who want to decompress such files. It was developed by VGA-Software and Thomas Mönkemeier.

It compresses DOS EXE files (to EXE), and COM files (converting them to EXE). The files it creates are a corruption of TINYPROG format, but superficially look more like PKLITE.

Only version 1.62 has been found, but there were others. UnTiny v1.04 says it supports "PKTiny 1.0, 1.4, 1.5, 1.60 (from VGACOPY.EXE), 1.61, 1.62".

Identification

For v1.62 at least, a PKTINY-compressed file normally contains the ASCII strings "This program runs only on i80286 and above." and "Program was modified and will not run." somewhere in it.

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Dependencies:

Decompression:

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