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Re: COMP430D.ZIP problems with DOS5

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From: Timo Salmi
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:19
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In article <ecm9093.54@aston.ac.uk> ecm9093@aston.ac.uk (J.P.FLETCHER) writes:
>I have had problems with the compress/decompress program extracted from 
>COMP430D.ZIP since I have moved from DOS4.01 to DOS5 on my 486 PC.
>I get a message "Packed file is corrupt" when I run the program, even with 
>no command line arguments.
>Has anyone any advice on coping with this one?

This is more of an MsDos than a comp430d problem.  Run HELP LOADFIX
on your MsDos 5.0 PC, and see what happens.  See the MsDos manual
for more details of the whys.  If this does not help (but it
probably will) see if the author's email address is either in the
comp430d documents or in
  16213 Jan  8 14:14 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/author13.zip

   All the best, Timo

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Subject: Re: COMP430D.ZIP problems with DOS5
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Date: 12 Jan 93 17:19:53 GMT
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