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Article #9179Re: "Packed file is corrupt" means what?
From: Ken Abrams
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1991 16:53
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1991 16:53
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In article <2364@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> yee@edison.seas.ucla.edu (John Yee) writes: >Hi, we need some help around here with our new machine. >Under some circumstances, running some programs (those compiled by >a Microsoft compiler), we get the message "Packed file is corrupt" This is caused by the EXE packer that comes with the MS compiler. It (usually) only occurs when the program load into RAM starts below the first 64K segment boundary. The quick and dirty way to avoid the problem is to load enough things memory resident to fill up the first 64K. Adding more BUFFERS is probably the easiest way. When you get the free memory down below 576K (589,824) as shown by CHKDSK or MEM then the problem should disappear. I have heard rumors that the problem will not occur with (not yet released) MS-DOS 5.0. -- ======================================================== Ken Abrams uunet!pallas!kabra437 Illinois Bell kabra437@athenanet.com Springfield (voice) 217-753-7965
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!bradley.bradley.edu!pallas!kabra437 From: kabra437@pallas.athenanet.com (Ken Abrams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: "Packed file is corrupt" means what? Message-ID: <1065@pallas.athenanet.com> Date: 12 Apr 91 16:53:20 GMT References: <2364@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> Organization: Athenanet, Inc., Springfield, Illinois Lines: 20