DESCRIPTION
===========
  EEC is a standalone cruncher for exectables.


FEATURES
========
  - Standalone
  - PPC or 68K executables
  - CLI or WB start


REQUIREMENTS
============
  - MorphOS 1.x


USAGE
=====
  EEC does only work from a shell.

  Arguments
  ---------
  "FROM/A,TO/A,QUIET/S"

  FROM/A  - Input file (a executable)
  TO/A    - Output file
  QUIET/S - Be quiet, print no output


HOW DOES IT WORK
================
  First the program that should be compressed will be packed into memory.
  Then the loader-code, which is included in EEC will be written and the
  packed data will be added into a new executable....
  I decided to use a LZSS algorithm combined with arithmetic compression.
  This achieve a relative good packing ratio and the code for decompression
  is also not so big. This is importand, because the loader also must
  include the code for decompression...


AUTHOR
======
  Rupert Hausberger <naTmeg@gmx.net>


AVAILABILITY
============
  - WWW:
    http://naTmeg.webhop.net

  - Aminet, for example:
    ftp://ftp.germany.aminet.org/pub/aminet/util/arc/ecc-morphos.lha


LICENSE
=======
  EEC is Freeware.

  THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY
  APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT
  HOLDER AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY
  OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
  THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
  PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE
  PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE
  COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

  IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
  WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY REDISTRIBUTE THE
  PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY
  GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE
  USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS
  OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR
  THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER
  PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
  POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.


CHANGELOG
=========
v1.31 (12.10.2007)
------------------
 - Fixed return code value. (thx Stefan Haubenthal)

v1.30 (11.10.2007)
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 - Added support for m68k-executables. (thx piru)
 - Loader-size is now 6908 bytes.

v1.20 (10.10.2007)
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 - Added __amigappc__ define.
 - Fixed float output. (thx Stefan Haubenthal)
 - Loader-size is now 6772 bytes.

v1.10 (08.10.2007)
------------------
 - Optimized startup-code of the loader.
 - Added a check, whether the crunched file is a ELF-file.
 - Shrinked size of the loader-code from 7920 to 6740 bytes.

v1.00 (27.09.2007)
------------------
 - Initial.

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO METHOD CRC     STAMP          NAME
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
[generic]                 9387   19852  47.3% -lh5- c661 Oct 11 21:09 eec/eec
[generic]                 1582    3199  49.5% -lh5- 949d Oct 11 21:09 eec/eec.readme
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
 Total         2 files   10969   23051  47.6%            Oct 12 07:26