Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:35:09 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Laurynas Biveinis wrote:

> I think I know what could be wrong - I built binary
> by compiling it to COFF image, then prepending PMODE
> stub to it and _then compressing it with djp_.
> I think that djp stub which uncompresses the program
> itself already requires DPMI services, but PMODE stub
> still is compressed at this point...
> 
> Could this be true?

I don't know, and Laszlo's explanation didn't help me decide whether
this could be a problem.

Can you try an uncompressed version of unzip32 bound with PMODE, and
see if this problem goes away?  We don't really need to compress
unzip32, but we do need it to work reliably in all environments.

If you cannot reproduce the problems I reported, please send me the
uncompressed binary, and I will try it on my machine.