RUCC/386 - ROSE SWE Ultra COM File Compressor

Overview

RUCC/386 is a powerful COM file compressor designed specifically for very small files (less than 5KB). It excels at compressing small COM files for DOS boot disks and emergency disks, often achieving better compression ratios than Apack 0.99b and UPX 1.20 … 3.94.

Features

Usage

rucc infile [outfile]

Example

rucc myprogram.com compressed.com

Notes

Technical Details

Limitations

Files provided

RUCC386.EXE: MS-DOS executable
RUCC686.EXE: MS-DOS executable, LE executable for MS-DOS, DOS/32A DOS extender (stub), UPX compressed
rucc.html:   HTML document, Unicode text, UTF-8 text, with very long lines (12579)
rucc_elf64:  ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, no section header

Future Improvements

Remember to always keep backups of your original files before compression.

Citations:
https://github.com/packing-box/awesome-executable-packing