ComprEXE

File Format
Name	ComprEXE
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Compression Executable compression ComprEXE
Released	1997

ComprEXE is an executable compression utility for DOS, developed by Tom Torfs. It compresses EXE files (to EXE), and COM files (to COM).

It was distributed with v3.10+ of ProtEXE, another executable tool.

Identification

For compressed COM, the first 16 bytes of the file have the pattern fc 1e 06 8c dd 83 c5 10 89 e8 ba ?? ?? 8b 1e 02. For compressed EXE, that same pattern appears at offset 32.

Software

• protx310.zip (ProtEXE 3.10) → COMPREXE.* - ComprEXE v1.0 [1997-08-13]
• protx311.zip (ProtEXE 3.11) → COMPREXE.* - ComprEXE v1.0 [1997-09-01]