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From: liberato@dri.com (Jimmy Liberato)
Subject: Re: "Packed file is corrupt" error and MS-DOS 5.0
Message-ID: <7BV45LD@dri.com>
Reply-To: liberato@dri.com (Jimmy Liberato)
Organization: Digital Research, Inc., Monterey Development Center
References: <1991Jun24.195425.19543@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 91 18:01:22 GMT
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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.

Files that are "exe-packed" cannot load into the first 64K of conventional
memory that is newly freed-up because of loading the kernal high.  There
should be some utility included that will lock out this low memory for
those particular executables.

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