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- Subject: Re: Packed file is corrupt?
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- From: a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin)
- Date: 9 Dec 92 18:45:14 GMT
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- In <1992Dec9.084235.4231@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> u5533129@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au writes:
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- >On my home machine, if I set up my config to give too much free memory, I get
- >the message "PACKED FILE IS CORRUPT" from a wide variety (but not all)
- >software.
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- >Can anyone tell me where this message is genorated, and why?
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- This occurs when an (old) EXEPACKed program is loaded below 64K. To fix
- it, you can either use LOADFIX (distributed with DOS 5) or various
- utilities which actually repair the EXE file; (This can be done be cause
- the MS-supplied unpack routine is 2 bytes longer than necessary) - I think
- one of them is called EXEFIX or FIXEXE.
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