From:	"Charles Sandmann" <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Weird problem with Grabber and PKUNZIP : Allegro!
Date:	Tue, 17 Jun 1997 9:49:35
Organization:	Aspen Technology, Inc.
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> The only thing I can think of is that TP 6.0, and I suspect pkunzip as
> well, use 16 bit DMPI services while the grabber is of course a 32 bit DPMI

I know for certain that pkunzip is a 32-bit DPMI client, since it runs
under CWSDPMI.  But pkunzip uses raw mode switching services, which can
be corrupted much easier than some of the other mode switching methods,
and may well be buggy for nesting purposes in W95.

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