1. Why doesn't gzip386.exe work correctly on an IBM PC or compatible when trying to uncompress files created by gzip, UNIX compress or pack?

If you get the error message "DMPI: Not enough memory", you are using a memory manager which allocates physical memory immediately instead of allocating on demand when pages are used for the first time. This problem occurs only when using DMPI. (Try under plain DOS without loading any memory manager in config.sys.)

Read the document gzip.doc, in particular the description of the -N option which is very useful for MSDOS to restore the original file names that have been truncated. You can set it by default by adding

set GZIP= -N

in your autoexec.bat file.