Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 13:03:12 +1100
From: Bill Currie <billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz>
Subject: Re: floppy-copy errors
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On 24 Jul 97 at 20:36, Bruce A. Locke wrote:

> At 12:51 AM 7/25/97 +0200, you wrote:
> >> AD&D (two games of the series):  Error message:  Packed File is Corrupt 
> >
> >Hmm, I had an error like this many a time, when I did ASM in M$-DOS.
> >A reboot fixed it every time.
> >It occured when a program crashed, but didn't hang the system (a rare
> >occurence ;-) ).
> >Try a reboot then immediatly start the game, no other programs.
> 
> Nope.  It does it everytime.  Reboots and booting by the shift key
> don't do a thing... :(

Are they .exe files? If so, maybe opendos has problems with segment 
relocations under certain circumstances.  I've been having 
similar problems with IDA (interactive disassembler) complaining that 
it's been corrupted.

My *GUESS* (wild and hairy as they come) is that maybe these problem 
programs have negative relocations in them (I've seen some that do, 
but mostly for the program entry point in compressed exes) and maybe 
opendos chokes on these.

Just my wild guess
Bill
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