Mail Archives: opendos/2002/10/01/04:00:00
In the past, I've used UNP V4.11 (available at Simtel and Garbo, IIRC)
to decompress such old programs with buggy decompression stubs.
If you like, you can then re-compress them, eg. using UPX, which is
available for DOS (also for Linux) and gives very good compression
(see http://upx.sourceforge.net).
Joe.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shadow AT krypton DOT rain DOT com [SMTP:shadow AT krypton DOT rain DOT com]
> Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 1:41 PM
> To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: Loadfix
>
> I've run into a snag on a friend's BBS system (yes, there are still
> BBSes struggling along). It's running DR-DOS 7.03. We are using 4dos
> 5.5 as the command processor. And QEMM and desqview.
>
> The XU utility (for setting parameters on the X00 fossil driver doesn't
> like loading in low RAM (the usual "packed file corrupt" error).
>
> The DR-DOS LOADFIX.bat doesn't solve the problem. Running the critical
> lines by hand to invoke MEMMAX gets an error about "must be loaded from
> the Master command shell"
>
> Running loadfix.com from DOS 6.22 solved the problem on *my* system,
> but not on hers.
>
> What *does* work is this atrocity of a command line:
>
> command /c loadfix.com xu
>
> followed by the parameters for the XU program.
>
> Any ideas what might be going on?
>
> Yes, I'm looking for an unpacked copy of XU. But this is obviously
> *some* sort of oddball problem.
>
> Oh yeah, we are still using DV because FXUUCICO complains about the
> 115200 speed of the serial port if we don't. Weird.
>
> --
> Leonard Erickson (aka shadow{G})
> shadow AT krypton DOT rain DOT com <--preferred
> leonard AT qiclab DOT scn DOT rain DOT com <--last resort
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