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> I don’t understand what a ‘packer’ is You've found the right series of articles then!

• chrisseaton 6y ago
  I read it - I did't find an explanation of what it was that he was building, just how he was building it.
  • saagarjha 6y ago
    Think of it of decompression software bundled along with a compressed version of the program you actually want to run. So execution starts in the uncompression part, it unzips all the code into memory, and then starts running the program you actually cared about.
  • abiogenesis 6y ago
    See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_compression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_compression . They have been around since forever.
  • icedchai 6y ago
    Packers were common in the 80's and 90's to save disk space. I mostly remember them from Amiga warez and demos.