Subj : Release of v3.4?
To   : Kees van Eeten
From : Ulrich Schroeter
Date : Fri May 24 2013 23:44:26

moin Kees,

Friday May 24 2013 10:01, Roy Witt wrote to you:

 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

using in last test

Allowunpub 1
Minphone 1

using 2 test lines in a testsegment

Testline A

 KvE>>  In your case a line with  Pvt,......,000.0.0.0.0,........
 KvE>>  produces an error message.

Testline B

 RW> ,10,CompTA_Radical,San_Antonio_TX,Roy_Witt,-Unpublished-,300,CM,MO,XX
 RW> ,
 RW> INA: z28krazy.dyndns.org,IBN

Test 1:
=======
rev 3.3.3 OpenWatcom 1.9 DOS compiled makenl_ng
under WinXP DOS box -> success
                 Testline A: corrected to  Pvt,..,-Unpublished-,..
                 Testline B: kept intact   ,...,-Unpublished-,...

Test 2:
=======
rev 3.3.3 OpenWatcom 1.9 DOS compiled makenl_ng
under OS/2 warp3 DOS box -> success
                 Testline A: corrected to  Pvt,..,-Unpublished-,..
                 Testline B: kept intact   ,...,-Unpublished-,...



 RW> This is the LOG file that MNL created that shows a succesful compile
 RW> here.
 RW>
 RW> - 11-Jan-2013 11:22:20 makenl[204] MakeNL 3.3.1 (Win32) compiled with
 RW> Watcom C on Dec 26 2012 00:19:36
 RW> ...

with similar output :)


 RW> BTW, as the date of the log indicates, this is how long it has been
 RW> since the problem with OS/2 has been known to exist.

at least the DOS executable in a DOS box under OS/2 warp3 did
results in success

but there are two hints about 4OS2 and 4DOS addons used under OS/2 ...
As I know 4* as a shell extension under OS/2 and DOS maybe the
reported crash relates to this shell extension ?!?
that I cannot test (no 4OS2, no 4DOS installed, neither available)


 KvE>>  The flag "ALLOWUNPUB 1" allows the word "Unpublished" to be
 KvE>> used in lines starting with other tags than "Pvt"
 RW> Correct. But, using that flag in MNL crashes OS/2...

without the 4OS2 and 4DOS installed I cannot reproduce this crash
under OS/2 warp3, so there is something special in the used
environment where it crashes


 KvE>>  The flag "MINPHONE 1" counts the number of "-" separated groups
 KvE>> in a telephone number. For a value other than "Unpublished" it
 KvE>> should be set to "1" if there are no dashes in the phone number
 KvE>> field.
 RW> 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.
 RW> I do not have an OS/2 machine to varify that.


 KvE>>  Lets hope that we can entice Ulrich to have a go, or whoever
 KvE>> compiled the executables for OS/2.
 RW> ?

OS/2 revision of binkley-xe I'd compiled, but this gcc3 environment doesn't 
give me a chance to compile with the existing makefiles :-P
so I'm currently limited testing with the DOS revision of rev3.3.3
of makenl_ng
The v3.3.3 package doesn't includes any executables :-P


 KvE>>  As a last thought, there should not be a problem in using
 KvE>> NLMAKE, if it can handle the envisioned changes to the nodelist.
 RW> Apparently it does have a problem as it doesn't like the segment
 RW> without a PVT flag and -Unpublished- in the phone field either. That
 RW> is why the two keywords are commented out in my segment and node 10 is
 RW> flying PVT and 000 etc. numbers in the phone field. Once MNL can work
 RW> with an OS/2 system, I can uncomment those two keywords, revise the
 RW> node 10 line and forward my revised segment to my RC...

so the test scenario is identified to check against, but currently
I cannot reproduce any crash under winxp nor under os/2 with the
compiled DOS executable in a DOS box

For further testing I'm still await an OS/2 executable or a working
makefile script in my inbound  =:)

 RW>          R\%/itt

regards, uli   ;-)

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