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From: schuster@panix.uucp (Michael Schuster)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: "Packed file is corrupt" error and MS-DOS 5.0
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.123350.574@panix.uucp>
Date: 25 Jun 91 12:33:50 GMT
References: <1991Jun24.195425.19543@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: PANIX - Public Access Unix Systems of NY
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In article <1991Jun24.195425.19543@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> 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.

READ THE DOCUMENTATION.
That's what LOADFIX.COM is for; it gets around the EXEPACK bug that
barfs when loading into the first 64K of memory.

	e.g. LOADFIX QBASIC.EXE
   

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