pkzip 2.04 and windows3.1 or os/2

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4 total messages Started by Dave Frascone Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:51

#281

Author: Dave Frascone
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:51

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

#283

Author: 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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pkzip 2.04 and DPMI

#349

Author: Steve.Withers
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:01

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In article <81411@hydra.gatech.EDU> 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?

There seems to be a bug in the DPMI use/recognition in PKZip 2.04c. This
applies t both Windows and OS/2 2.x. 
 
At least with OS/2 you can "zero" the DPMI available in a particular DOS
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Re: pkzip 2.04 and DPMI

#365

Author: Andrew Robinson
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:06

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To disable pkzip2.04c's usage of DPMI, use the "-)" command line parameter.
Or, better yet, get pkzip2.04e, which appears to have a fix for the DPMI
problem (it seems to be working right for me).


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     -- Andy
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