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Subject: Re: EMM386 error forever?
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At 10:35 PM 3/27/00 +0500, "Mark at Cross+Road's" <mark1 AT mich DOT com> wrote:

>Hello All,
>    When using the dos version of pkunzip version 2.50 1999 I get a emm386
>error while trying to /t or unpack a zip.
>    The version 2.04g does not give this error.

If anybody at PKWare is wondering why I don't choose to send them money,
this is a big part of the reason.

This is indeed a DPMI issue.  You can work around it by typing the command
DPMI OFF before starting PKZIP / PKUNZIP, and DPMI ON afterwards.  You
should be able to automate the process with a couple of DOSKEY macros
so you never have to think about it again.

However, why bother when there are free replacements available which don't
suffer blatant compatibility issues?  Info-ZIP is compatible and open-
source.  Now if only it would span disks....

raster AT highfiber DOT com