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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 23:39:10
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From: Charles Dye <raster AT highfiber DOT com>
Subject: Re: Packed file is corrupt?
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At 02:59 PM 11/20/98, Arkady Belousov wrote:

>Hi!
>
>21-ξΟΡ-98 02:39 lars_einar DOT jansson AT 2 DOT sbbs DOT se (Lars-Einar Jansson) wrote to
opendos AT delorie DOT com, caldera-opendos AT rim DOT caldera DOT com:
>
>LJ> When trying to launch a couple of applications residing on the C-
>LJ> drive, among them PCTOOLS' PCShell, in a version from 1991, I got the
>LJ> error message "Packed file is corrupt". I'm not running any kind of
>LJ> disk-compression.
>
>     When MS-DOS 5.0 arrived with self-upper loading, there is new problem
>appear - programs, packed by old version of PKLITE (or MS's EXEPACK?) can't
>correctly start, when loaded at first 64K, so MS's add "fix" to DOS. Start
>such application with LOADFIX as prefix:
>
>        LOADFIX yourpgm

More convenient in the long run:  unpack the program with something like
UNP to remove the the buggy EXEPACK header.  Then, if you wish, recompress
with any EXE packer.  I like Diet; LZEXE and PKLite also have their fans.

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