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From: yee@edison.seas.ucla.edu (John Yee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: "Packed file is corrupt" means what?
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Date: 11 Apr 91 09:52:07 GMT
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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"
(or something like that) and we found using NU that the msg comes
from within the .exe file itself.  Our machine is a noname 486,
and one of the ways we can get this to happen is to boot from a floppy.
If we boot from the HD, the programs seem to run OK---sometimes.
In both cases the program we are trying to run is stored on the HD.
Comments welcome,
Thanks in advance,
jy, yee@seas.ucla.edu