Searching for LEXEM, and old compressor

[Mark0]

I have just read on the ArchiveTeam website about LEXEM, a precursor/superset of DIET by Teddy Matsumoto.
While DIET is just an EXEs compressor, LEXEM appears to be an archiver that can also compress EXEs.
Anyone happens to have it on some old archive? I can't seem to find it online.
Thanks in advance.

 

[jplr]

Maybe this DRX109 program might be useful?

115 files found in Archive Utilities

annex.retroarchive.org

Shell for detecting files compressed by several executable file compressors.
supports AXE, DIET, EXEPACK, ICE, LEXEM, LZEXE, PKLITE, SCRNCH, SHRINK and TINYPROG.

It seems there is a DRX110 there:

http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/misc/dos/cdrom-1995-04-walnut-creek-best-of/files/discs/lacol/00index.txt

 

[krebizfan]

It will be a Japan only release that I see referred to in a Japanese compression mailing list. 20 years ago, I would have suggested sending a request to Prof Okumura or the list itself but he retired a long time ago. I expect it would take find a shareware website in Japan or similarly archived CDROM from there to have a chance to find it. The one shareware website I tried was only partially stored on the Internet Archive.

You have set yourself an interesting challenge.

 

[Mark0]

jplr:​

I had found that but it seems to be just able to identify & decompress.​

krebizfan:​

Yes, it seems that it was in very limited circulation so that complicate things.​

Thanks to all!