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Article #3507Re: "Packed file is corrupt" error and MS-DOS 5.0
From: Jimmy Liberato
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 18:01
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 18:01
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west@turing.toronto.edu (Tom West) writes:
> I have been getting "Packed file is corrupt" errors when trying to
>run certain applications after installing MS-DOS 5.0. Any idea what
>might cause this? Specifically qbasic and PC-NFS telnet give this
>error when I try to run them.
>
> I assume it has to do with devicehigh, since if I don't load anything
>high, the problem goes away, but I was wondering if anyone else has had
>any experience with this problem.
Files that are "exe-packed" cannot load into the first 64K of conventional
memory that is newly freed-up because of loading the kernal high. There
should be some utility included that will lock out this low memory for
those particular executables.
--
Jimmy Liberato liberato@dri.com
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!drivax!liberato From: liberato@dri.com (Jimmy Liberato) Subject: Re: "Packed file is corrupt" error and MS-DOS 5.0 Message-ID: <7BV45LD@dri.com> Reply-To: liberato@dri.com (Jimmy Liberato) Organization: Digital Research, Inc., Monterey Development Center References: <1991Jun24.195425.19543@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 91 18:01:22 GMT Lines: 22