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- From: rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: New PKZIP problems?
- Message-ID: <726581677rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 12:14:37 GMT
- References: <1993Jan8.212936.1@opie.bgsu.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan8.212936.1@opie.bgsu.edu> ghensle@opie.bgsu.edu writes:
- >I downloaded PKZIP 2.04C and I am wondering if anyone else is having any
- >troubles with it? Under straight DOS 5.0 it has worked fine (arj still
- >compresses better for me) but under OS/2 it hangs while compressing files. I
- >am still able to get back and kill it but it seems strange. Anyone else
- >having better luck with it?
-
- Yes, it works for me. Try disabling the DPMI in the DOS session by
- setting the amount of DPMI memory to zero. Not that this problem is
- not specific to OS/2, it can appear in Windows 3.x enhanced mode DOS
- sessions as well.
-
- Kai Uwe Rommel
-
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- DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
- handler, and always will be. -Russell Williams
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