Re: COMP430D.ZIP problems with DOS5

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From: Matt Garretson
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:51

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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?

I've been using those programs with DOS 5 for some time with no problems.
Most likely what happened is that your executables got corrupted somehow. Try
downloading another copy of the COMP430D archive.

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