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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
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Subject: Re: Novice 386 C Compiler/Video Driver/EMM Questions
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.173921.26037@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 91 22:39:01 GMT
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ressler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Mike "IR" Ressler) <11886@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> :
| video board or produce 386 optimized instructions). QEMM seemed to make
| PCWrite barf (what does "packed file is corrupt" mean?) while Microsoft

I got this same message with one of Anarkey's support programs (to load
macros; it's non-resident), only when the resident portion was loaded
into high memory.  Strange... however, the message refers to the program
being "packed" by Microsoft's PACK.EXE or whatever it's called.

I unpacked the executable, and the result runs fine whether Anarkey is
loaded in high memory or the 640K stuff.  The UPACKEXE.EXE unpacker that
I used came with the LZEXE executable-compressing program (great program,
and I get to practice my French too :-) --- so I tried running the
problem program through LZEXE and the result *also* works fine in either
high mem. or 640K.  And the result is far far smaller than the PACKed
original.

You might try unpacking PCWrite; you might also try LZEXE compressing it
to see how you like that.


|    emm386.sys, himem.sys, xma2ems.sys, smartdrive.sys, ramdrive.sys

My vague understanding is that the first three manage extended memory
on a 386, allow access to the RAM between 640K and 1M, and [do something
pretty much neato keeno].  QEMM takes the place of all three of them.