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Re: pkzip 2.04 and windows3.1 or os/2

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From: Jacob W Janovetz
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 07:04
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gt4719b@prism.gatech.EDU (Dave Frascone) writes:

>Pkzip must try to put the processor into protected mode or something,
>It crashes on my os/2 at home, and at work under windows 3.1.

>Has anyone else had this trouble?

>Dave
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>gt4719b@prism.gatech.edu

   I had this problem earlier.  It only crashed for me when I ran PKZIP without
parameters and looked at the list of switches, then pressed a key to continue.
When I forced PKZIP _NOT_ to use DPMI with the -) switch, I believe... the
symptoms disappeared.  I was also running under OS/2 at home.  

   Jake ---- janovetz@coewl.cen.uiuc.edu

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