Kees van Eeten wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
    RW>>>> My RC, Marc Lewis can't use MNL on his OS/2 system and has   
    RW>>>> reverted back to using NLMake. Some of the new keywords produce   
    RW>>>> errors when MNL encounters a PVT listing with a 000.0.0.0.0 number   
    RW>>>> in the phone field of an ION node. We've been waiting for months   
    RW>>>> on this issue, which Andrew Leary has been aware that it exists   
    RW>>>> and has stated that the MNL team is working on it.   
      
    KvE>>>  Someone must have missed something in the specs.   
      
    RW>> That could be. My MNL compiled netseg crashed the RC19's OS/2 system   
    RW>> and so did a few other netsegs in R19...meanwhile, I've blocked the   
    RW>> keywords that crashed his system...   
      
      
    RW>> ; control file for Net 387 using   
    RW>> ; MakeNL v3.3.1 -- Windows 32 Bit Version   
    RW>> ; nodelist control file.   
    RW>> ;ALLOWUNPUB 1   
    RW>> ;MINphone 1   
      
    RW>>   ________ Roy snipped text here!________O/___________________   
    RW>>                                          O\   
      
    KvE>  I have looked at your remarks again. It seems to me that you talk   
    KvE> of two distinct problems.   
      
    KvE>  The first is where you get error messages is a specific case, the   
    KvE> seconds where your RC has a program crash on a OS/2 system.   
      
   Actually, I get no error messages as MNL works as advertised on my WinXP   
   machine.   
      
    KvE>  In your case a line with  Pvt,......,000.0.0.0.0,........   
    KvE>  produces an error message.   
      
   This is the line that crashes OS/2 on my RC's system.   
      
   ,10,CompTA_Radical,San_Antonio_TX,Roy_Witt,-Unpublished-,300,CM,MO,XX,INA:   
   z28krazy.dyndns.org,IBN   
      
   This is the LOG file that MNL created that shows a succesful compile here.   
      
   - 11-Jan-2013 11:22:20 makenl[204] MakeNL 3.3.1 (Win32) compiled with   
   Watcom C on Dec 26 2012 00:19:36   
   + 11-Jan-2013 11:22:20 makenl[204] MakeNL started   
   + 11-Jan-2013 11:22:20 makenl[204] Cmdline: E:\MNL\3.3.1\makenl.exe   
   "n387.ctl"   
   + 11-Jan-2013 11:22:20 makenl[204] Using 'n387.ctl' in 'E:\MNL\3.3.1'   
   + 11-Jan-2013 11:22:20 makenl[204] Begin processing '387net.' -- 11:22,   
   Friday, January 11, 2013   
   + 11-Jan-2013 11:22:20 makenl[204] Sending 'E:\DB3\NETMAIL\387net.011' to   
   19/0   
   + 11-Jan-2013 11:22:20 makenl[204] CRC = 38474   
   + 11-Jan-2013 11:22:20 makenl[204] MakeNL finished (rc=0)   
      
   BTW, as the date of the log indicates, this is how long it has been since   
   the problem with OS/2 has been known to exist.   
      
    KvE>  Your current segment does not list a dotted number in te telephone   
    KvE> field.   
      
   Correct. But if you look at node 387/10, that is the line that crashed   
   OS/2 which was formerly not PVT and had -Unpublished- in the phone   
   field...   
      
    KvE>  And the logic in the programs is that a line starting with Pvt, has   
    KvE> the   
    KvE>  word "Unpublished" in the telephonenumber field.   
      
   The latest MNL program is supposed to allow an ION node to use   
   -Unpublished- in the phone field without having to use the PVT flag.   
      
    KvE>  The flag "ALLOWUNPUB 1" allows the word "Unpublished" to be used in   
    KvE> lines   
    KvE>  starting with other tags than "Pvt"   
      
   Correct. But, using that flag in MNL crashes OS/2...   
      
    KvE>  The flag "MINPHONE 1" counts the number of "-" separated groups in   
    KvE> a telephone number. For a value other than "Unpublished" it should   
    KvE> be set to "1" if there are no dashes in the phone number field.   
      
   Yes, see above.   
      
    KvE>  What is not clear what causes makenl to crash on OS/2. If it is   
    KvE> something not in line with the specs, it should produce an error   
    KvE> message, so it is something more serious.   
      
   I do not have an OS/2 machine to varify that.   
      
    KvE>  If those who have this problem are not in a position to hunt for   
    KvE> the problem themselves, someone else has to be found, who can   
    KvE> reproduce and analyse the same problem.   
      
   I'd volunteer my RC, but he's probably just getting out of surgery today   
   and not up to the task...   
      
    KvE>  Lets hope that we can entice Ulrich to have a go, or whoever   
    KvE> compiled the executables for OS/2.   
      
   ?   
      
    KvE>  As a last thought, there should not be a problem in using NLMAKE,   
    KvE> if it can handle the envisioned changes to the nodelist.   
      
   Apparently it does have a problem as it doesn't like the segment without a   
   PVT flag and -Unpublished- in the phone field either. That is why the two   
   keywords are commented out in my segment and node 10 is flying PVT and 000   
   etc. numbers in the phone field. Once MNL can work with an OS/2 system, I   
   can uncomment those two keywords, revise the node 10 line and forward my   
   revised segment to my RC...   
      
      
            R\%/itt   
      
      
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