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- From: geoff@tyger.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
- Subject: Re: packed file corrupt
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 22:49:49 GMT
- Organization: SunSelect
- Lines: 51
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <1ivhudINNo93@seven-up.East.Sun.COM>
- References: <1993Jan12.185738.17971@netnews.whoi.edu>
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- In article 17971@netnews.whoi.edu, eklein@whsun1.wh.whoi.edu (Edgar Kleindinst) writes:
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- ##On various PC's when PCNFS.SYS is loaded high we get this error message upon
- ##trying to run certain applications. "packed file courrupt" I seem to remember some
- ##mention of this on the net but failed to keep a copy of the message.
- ##Does anyone know the reason this error occurs?
-
- It's nice to have the archives on-line :-) The problem was due to a bug
- in the Microsoft EXEPACK utility: when it was written, nobody imagined
- that an executable would ever be loaded below 64K...:-(
-
- Here's the fix that Michele Bergonzoni suggested a couple of years ago.
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- ## >From: bergonz@keeper.sublink.ORG (Michele Bergonzoni)
- ## Message-ID: <68.27EFC762@keeper.sublink.ORG>
- ## Date: 26 Mar 91 20:57:53 GMT
- ## Organization: V. Angelo custode,9 40141 Bologna ITALY
- ## Lines: 24
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- ## > >option of DOS5.0, but I'm not sure about that. Nfsconf says 'packed file
- ## > >corrupt', but the network itself works correctly.
- ## >
- ## > I was told by a quarterdeck engineer, that this result was due to a bug
- ## > in some versions of EXEPACK, which manifested itself when programs
- ##
- ## You can try to work around this by a freeware package for MS-DOS, LZEXE (by
- ## Fabrice Bellard). LZEXE does the same job of EXEPACK, but using Lempel-Ziv
- ## compression, and thus much better. In the LZEXE package there is an utility
- ## (UPACKEXE) to de-EXEPACK EXEPACKed files, to achieve better result in
- ## subsequent compression. Maybe you could use that to overcome the bug in
- ## EXEPACK's unpacking code. If you don't know where to find LZEXE, try
- ## +39516343719 (OCA System BBS), +3951554430 (BESIII BBS) [Sorry for the long
- ## distance...] or e-mail me if really desperate.
- ## HTH, ciao
- ##
- ## Bergonz
- ## --
- ## Michele Bergonzoni | This
- ## internet: bergonz@keeper.sublink.org | is
- ## FidoNet : 2:332/401.7 | not
- ## Mail : V. Angelo Custode, 9 | a
- ## 40141 Bologna ITALY | pipe
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- Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Select. (geoff.arnold@East.Sun.COM)
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