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From: kabra437@pallas.athenanet.com (Ken Abrams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Meaning of "Packed File Is Corrupt" Message??
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Date: 4 Dec 90 22:35:26 GMT
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Reply-To: kabra437@pallas.UUCP (Ken Abrams)
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In article <4e61a969.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> angelini@apollo.HP.COM (Bob Angelini) writes:
>
>I get the following error message on a 286 clone when I try to
>run several programs: Packed File Is Corrupt
>
Surprising as it may seem, you can do TOO good a job of conserving RAM.
I don't remember all the gory details but executables produced with 
certain compilers that include an "EXE packer" would produce this message
IF the program is loaded starting below the first 64K segment of RAM.
Assuming that you have 640K to start with, if a CHKDSK shows 576K or
more available then this might be the problem.  You need to do something
to eat up a little extra RAM to allow these programs to run.  Adding a
few more BUFFERS in your CONFIG.SYS file is probably the easiest way.

few more BUFFERS
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