Protect! EXE/COM v.3.0
			(C) 1993 Jeremy Lilley,
			  All Rights Reserved
			   Help/Problems File

	This is a brief file describing what to do in some cases that
you have problems with Protect! EXE/COM  (which *hopefully* shouldn't
happen much):


	Problem:				Explanation:

A file  is protected  with no errors, 	Protect! EXE/COM is  known to be
but when it is run, it either crashes	incompatible  with   some  files
the computer or generates a CRC error	including  some  overlays,  some
message.				extremely large and short files,
					OS/2, and Windows files.  If you <<
					have more than 1 executable file <<
					compressor  (like  if  you  have <<
					PKLITE and LZEXE), TRY MORE THAN <<
					ONE.  I have  had some  programs <<
					work under LZEXE but  not PKLITE
					and some under  PKLITE  but  not
					LZEXE.  You should  not run into
					this type of problem very often,
					but I've run into it a few times
					during  testing,  and it's  just
					quirks in the files.  Also, make
					sure that it was not  previously
					protected with  another  program 
					that would make it  incompatible
					with Protect! EXE/COM.  If it is
					a COM file, try  using a program
					such as PKLITE first.

Protect! EXE/COM aborts and says to	To protect an EXE file, YOU MUST
use a  compression  utility  on the 	PRECOMPRESS IT.  This is because
file. 					protected files are more  secure
					if they don't have long sequences
					of the same characters which tend
					to get picked out very easily. To
					protect  these  files,  you  must 
					obtain a compressor such as LZEXE,
					PKLITE, Compack, etc. If you used 
					a lesser known  compressor and it
					gave you that  message,  it means
					that that particular compressor is
					incompatible (probably  because it
					doesn't   completely   clear   the 
					relocation table) with Protect!.

After  selecting   a   non-compressed	If you want Protect! to search through
EXE file from the  directory  listing	the path and  look  for  LZEXE.EXE  or
in Protect!, it asked  "Compress file	PKLITE.EXE and do  everything for you,
(Lzexe/Pklite/Continue/Abort) ?" What	select L or P.  If you  compressed  it
should I select ?			with a utility such as COMPACK, select
					Continue  and  it   will  attempt   to 
					protect the file. If you  just want to
					quit, select Abort.

Protect! says that there was an		Make sure  that the  directory is
error accessing/writing a file.		correct, and if it is on a floppy
					disk, that it is in.
					
Protect! reported that a file was	All EXE files begin with "MZ" and
not a valid EXE file.			that file did not  have that "MZ"
					signature at the beginning. Check
					to see  if it is  actually a  COM
					file but was renamed to an EXE.

Protect! said that a file was 		You or somebody else has already
already protected.			run Protect! on that file. It can
					be unreliable and slow if you start
					protecting files more than once.

Protect! said that a COM file was 	Protect! won't protect anything 
too small.				under 10 bytes.

I got a memory allocation error when	Contact me immediately!
I run Protect! EXE/COM or there was
a CRC error message.