Subj : OS/2 version has problems...
To   : All
From : Janis Kracht
Date : Thu Jan 17 2013 08:33:02

R19C, Marc Lewis, has been trying to get makenl_ng v3.3.1 going using the 32Bit 
OS/2 version.  He had first sent me his own changed ctl file, I corrected just 
a few things and sent it back for him to try because all he could generate was 
a file named filename.$$$

> Hello Janis!

> Pardon the top post.  I ran it again with the .ct2 file you sent back after
> putting my paths back in, and sure enough it generated another FILENAME.$$$
> zero byte file as its output.  I think the 32bit OS/2 version MAY be broken;
> I'm going to see if the 16bit OS/2 version works...
> [LATER]
> And yes, the 32bit version is broken; the 16bit works.  Now to toy with the
> system a bit
[...]
> Marc.


then later still:

 ML> Pardon the top post.  I ran it again with the .ct2 file you sent
 ML> back after putting my paths back in, and sure enough it generated
 ML> another FILENAME.$$$ zero byte file as its output.  I think the
 ML> 32bit OS/2 version MAY be broken; I'm going to see if the 16bit
 ML> OS/2 version works...
 ML> [LATER]
 ML> And yes, the 32bit version is broken; the 16bit works.  Now to toy
 ML> with the system a bit
[...]
 ML> Marc.

> This version of makenl is very date sensitive.  If the file present in the
> .\MASTER directory is older than 3 weeks, it will not accept it and omits the
>net from the nodelist segment.  The old MAXAGE verb will not work with makenl.
> Have to go back to using NLMAKE/2.

[...]
> Best regards,
> Marc


Take care,
Janis

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