mms00786@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (06/06/89)
Hello Dos Experts: I have come across what seems to be a really weird problem. I have two programs one of them is PCTOOLS' PcRestor.exe and another is DS.EXE (a shareware program) called directory scanner. When I try to run them, they both give the following message: Packed file is corrupt The really puzzling thing is that if something else is loaded into memory, like some TSR program, they both run just fine! I tried running them after booting u with no config.sys or autoexec.bat; just plain old dos. They give me the error message. However, if I load some TSR into memory, they run fine. My real problem is that I want to get rid of TSR's, having acquired windows 386, but now I am in a catch 22; windows doesn't like TSR's and these programs can't seem to work without them. I checked, and as far as I can tell, this isn't a DOS message, and it can't be the program's message because they are both exactly the same. Does anyone have an idea of what might be going on? Thanks Milan mms00786@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
jan@gads.pgds.tds.philips.nl (jan visser) (06/14/89)
In article <111700098@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> mms00786@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >I have come across what seems to be a really weird problem. . . . . . . > . . . . When I try to run them, they both give the following >message: > Packed file is corrupt >The really puzzling thing is that if something else is loaded into memory, like >some TSR program, they both run just fine! . . . . > >Does anyone have an idea of what might be going on? > I have no idea what causes this problem. But if you want to run those files without having to load TSR's you can (temporary) laod command.com. F.e. : C:\>command C:\>[program to run] . . . C:\>exit (to get rid of the extra copy of command) Or : C:\>command /c [program to run] (loads command; executes program and exits from command) Regards, -- Jan Visser jan@gads.pgds.tds.philips.nl -- -- Philips-TDS Dept. ISA-TDS -- -- Apeldoorn, The Netherlands phone .. 31 55 432208 -- -- Regards, -- Jan Visser jan@gads.pgds.tds.philips.nl -- -- Philips-TDS Dept. ISA-TDS -- -- Apeldoorn, The Netherlands phone .. 31 55 432208 --