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to: Jerry McBride
from: Mike Bilow
date: 1995-10-16 02:28:28
subject: BASIC for OS/2

Jerry McBride wrote in a message to Jeff(Howbie) Howard:

 JM> Yep. Over here I keep getting a "packed file is corrupt"
 JM> error when I envoke qbasic.exe... Go figure...

Try "LOADFIX QBASIC" instead.  EXE files created with the old
Microsoft linker using the "/EXEPACK" switch will do this because
of a bug if they are loaded below the 64 KB memory line.  OS/2 DOS sessions
will often cause this if DOS_HIGH is enabled.
 
-- Mike


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