From:	Lars-Einar Jansson <lars_einar DOT jansson AT 2 DOT sbbs DOT se>
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com, caldera-opendos AT rim DOT caldera DOT com
Date:	Mon, 23 Nov 1998 02:29:54
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Subject:	Re: Packed file corrupt?
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Thanks for the advice!

Writing "memmax -l" worked, as did MS's "loadfix.com", but not DR-DOS 
"loadfix.bat" which complained about "invalid directory".

I didn't quite understand that thing about compressing and 
decompressing. Is it so, that the cause of this malfunction is due to 
the fact that these files once have been zipped? And unzipped with a 
not-so-up-to-date version of PKUnzip? I don't quite get this 
"packing" thing...

As for memory management, in both cases when I tried booting from 
diskette, both with MS-DOS 6.0 and DR-DOS 7.02, their respective 
"himem.sys" *were* utilized and DOS loaded high in HMA.

One difference, though, is that DR-DOS 7.03 BETA uses version 2.33 
of Himem.sys versus 2.32 for DR-DOS 7.02 *and* that 7.03 BETA loads 
*more* of DOS, plus Command.com, into HMA, thereby freeing up more 
low memory.

Lars-Einar Jansson
Stockholm, Sweden

PS. I'm addressing this reply to both opendos-lists. Any opinion on 
which is the preferred one?

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