Re: Packed file is corrupt?

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From: Arthur Rubin
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1992 18:45

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In <1992Dec9.084235.4231@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> u5533129@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au writes:


>On my home machine, if I set up my config to give too much free memory, I get
>the message "PACKED FILE IS CORRUPT" from a wide variety (but not all)
>software.

>Can anyone tell me where this message is genorated, and why?

This occurs when an (old) EXEPACKed program is loaded below 64K.  To fix
it, you can either use LOADFIX (distributed with DOS 5) or various
utilities which actually repair the EXE file; (This can be done be cause
the MS-supplied unpack routine is 2 bytes longer than necessary) - I think
one of them is called EXEFIX or FIXEXE.
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