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- From: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: Do PKLITE'd executables work on *all* machines?
- Message-ID: <3566@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 14:02:47 GMT
- References: <1ilapgINNnim@life.ai.mit.edu>
- Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht
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- In <1ilapgINNnim@life.ai.mit.edu> dmb@case.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett) writes:
-
- >Is it safe to distribute software that's been PKLITE'd? Basically, I
- >worry that my software might not run on some configuration if I PKLITE
- >it. My program has data tacked onto the end of it, which the program
- >locates at run time. It seems to work fine on my 486 machine, but can
- >I trust it?
-
- PKLite makes some mistakes in initializing processor registers when
- starting a program. This can cause problems for some executables. This
- problem is however not machine but program connected. Since the
- pklite extractor does not use many fancy stuff (like e.g. PKZIP 2.04c)
- I don't expect system related problems. As soon as PKWARE
- adds DPMI or whatever to PKLite this might change.
-
- >Dave Baggett
-
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