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- From: jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan)
- Subject: Re: MSCDEX in OS/2
- References: <1993Jan7.141616.13512@ornl.gov> <1993Jan7.154627.26421@apgea.army.mil> <1993Jan7.195520.11213@midway.uchicago.edu> <1993Jan8.133005.15733@apgea.army.mil> <C0p32z.LIz@austin.ibm.com>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:48:53 GMT
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- gregb@gout.austin.ibm.com writes:
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- >In <1993Jan8.133005.15733@apgea.army.mil> rcmerrit@apgea.army.mil (Robert C. Merritt <rcmerrit>) writes:
- >>right? well I can write to C drive now BUT when I load msxdex high it says
- >>pack file corrupted! ok, I'm back to the beginning, I have to load it low.
- >>That gives me only 560K free and I need 600! Any suggestion, anyone?
- >>Rob Merritt
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- >The "Packed file is corrupt" is a Microsoft bug in their packexe
- >program. They assumed that programs would always be loading above
- >some point in memory (64k?), and OS/2 is giving you too much free
- >space. You have two options, either put a few small things low, or
- >track down a program called "loadfix", and run loadfix <program>.
- >I had a copy floating around somewhere, but I don't know where it is
- >now, or where I got it (DOS or OS/2 1.x)
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- LOADFIX comes with MS-DOS 5.0. It may come with other versions, too,
- but I last saw it with the above.
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- Jack Tan If your parents didn't have kids,
- jahk@uiuc.edu chances are you won't either.
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