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From: mms00786@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Packed File Corrupt? HELP!
Message-ID: <111700098@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 6 Jun 89 00:02:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!mms00786    Jun  5 19:02:00 1989


Hello Dos Experts:

I have come across what seems to be a really weird problem. I have two programs
one of them is PCTOOLS' PcRestor.exe and another is DS.EXE (a shareware program)
called directory scanner. When I try to run them, they both give the following
message:
   Packed file is corrupt 
The really puzzling thing is that if something else is loaded into memory, like
some TSR program, they both run just fine! I tried running them after booting u
with no config.sys or autoexec.bat; just plain old dos. They give me the error
message. However, if I load some TSR into memory, they run fine.

My real problem is that I want to get rid of TSR's, having acquired windows 386,
but now I am in a catch 22; windows doesn't like TSR's and these programs can't
seem to work without them. I checked, and as far as I can tell, this isn't a 
DOS message, and it can't be the program's message because they are both 
exactly the same.

Does anyone have an idea of what might be going on?

Thanks
Milan
mms00786@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu