some of you may remember my saying something about my old allfix 5.13   
   universal having problems scanning my frontdoor netmail area while frontdoor   
   was running... this resulted in allfix giving me that old "abort, retry,   
   ignore" prompt... some time back, out of frustration, i moved my allfix   
   tossing to my midnight maint and since frontdoor was already down at that   
   point, there would be no conflict... now, i should note that this was all the   
   DOS side of things on my OS/2 Warp 3 Connect box... DOS frontdoor and running   
   allfix 5.13 universal from a DOS command prompt...   
      
   that's the background... here's a little update on recent happenings... a few   
   weeks ago my system took an EMP burst which blew my USR Courier and locked up   
   the machine... a reboot brought the machine back but it was very dazed and   
   confused... an eight day battle ensued and i was able to clone the drives and   
   get everything running again under OS/2 eCS 2.1 (or 2.5?)... we went from a   
   PII 300mhz 112Meg RAM box to a PIII 800mhz 384Meg RAM box... but whoa, all of   
   the allfix universal apps froze the system solid when run from a DOS prompt...   
   i mean a hard lock... no keyboard, no nothing... big red switch time...   
      
   so after skipping all new files processing for a few days while i thought   
   about things, i decided to try running my allfix universal from the OS/2 side   
   of the fence... lo and behold, it ran! excellent... so we fixed up the script   
   files so the DOS maint task started the OS/2 side scripts to run allfix and   
   friends... everything has been good...   
      
   now, today, i'm looking at my ticbad area like i generally do and get it   
   cleaned up so i can try to toss these new files that failed for some reason   
   before... i wasn't even thinking and typed in my tic-in script command on the   
   DOS side and everything ran like it was supposed to do... allfix tools on the   
   OS/2 side and everything else over here on the DOS side... oh but wait! i   
   didn't freeze frontdoor first! i waited for that dreaded beep and the sight of   
   that old "abort, retry, ignore" prompt but it never came... the OS/2 side of   
   allfix universal didn't lock and complain when it ran thru the netmail area   
   while frontdoor was still running... nice! that's the way it used to be so   
   long ago... or it was supposed to be, anyway... so now i've gone into my   
   midnight maint scripts and blocked out the processing in there... then i   
   unblocked the tic processing in my inbound mail processing script... now let's   
   see if we can go back to processing the files as they come in instead of   
   waiting until mignight and risking multiple hatches of the same file leading   
   to multiple tics for the same file and thus more manual work to be done in the   
   ticbad area...   
      
   it looks like i should have maybe been using the OS/2 side of allfix universal   
   a long time ago... i just wanted to share this little story of winning battles   
   and gaining successes over time :)   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
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