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- From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
- Subject: Re: LOADFIX and low-memory EXE loading
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.185214.10262@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
- References: <C0ozzJ.DJA@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:52:14 GMT
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- In article <C0ozzJ.DJA@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> jjarrett@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (James Jarrett) writes:
- ...
- >Next, how can I write a program so it doesn't need LOADFIX? For my current
- >project, it doesn't matter, since I only have 1 user, and she has DOS 5.0.
- >My next project, however, is supposed to run on almost any machine. I
- >cannot require LOADFIX, and I would like to be able to circumvent the
- >problem inside my program.
-
- It was my understanding that this problem only manifests if you use
- EXEPACK on your (I.e., the developer's) executable file. So, if you are
- the developer, the easy solution is, "DON'T USE EXEPACK".
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