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NTDVM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction - please help.

Hello all,

Using Borland C++ 4.52 on a Windows Virtual PC in XP Mode.

I am writing what I thought to be a pretty simple DOS program.  It is basically opening files, filling up structures, printing structure information to a file and that's it.  The files are binary and are less than 32 Kbytes, most are 1K or less.   I am 75% of the way done, it has been running fine up to now.  I just added some code to finish it off, and now I am getting this error at runtime:

"The NTDVM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction.
CS:00cc IP:0106 OP:ff ff 00 00 00 Choose 'Close' to terminate the application."

The thing is, the code I added is just a repeat of the same code that was at the beginning but to different structures.  Seems to have something to do with the code size?  I don't know.  I am not that familiar with memory management.  However, when I removed the stuff I had added, it works again.  

I am attaching both the main code and the extra code I am trying to add.

I would appreciate any guidance.
extracode.txt
main-code.txt
C++* BorlandWindows XPWindows BatchMicrosoft DOS

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Actually never figured this out, but don't need it anymore.
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