CauseWay Compressor

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Name CauseWay Compressor
Ontology
Released ≤1996

CauseWay Compressor (abbreviated CWC) is a DOS utility that does executable compression and file compression.

CWC is part of CauseWay, a software package whose main feature is a DOS Extender. CauseWay may also provide library functions that can be used instead of the DOS utility.

CauseWay is by Michael Devore and Devore Software & Consulting. CWC was originally developed by John Wildsmith.[1]

The executable compression feature compresses EXE files, but it's not clear exactly what class of EXE files it supports. It claims to support "CauseWay applications" in "3P" format. It does seem to support at least some normal DOS EXE files.

The native compressed file format doesn't have a standard filename extension. Compressed files keep their original name.

The source code (assembly language) has apparently been released to the public domain.

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Identification

Compressed data files start with ASCII "CWC".

Compressed EXE files: (TODO)

Software

Links

  • There is some information about CWC in the CauseWay documentation, particularly Chapter 12: CauseWay File Compressor (page 80 and page 81).

References

  1. https://github.com/amindlost/cw/blob/main/doc/page_121.htm
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