Mario Semo wrote to Will Honea on 12-08-1999

MS> SOMIR and PATH are completly unrelated. PATH is used from 
MS> the OS to search for applications, while SOMIR is used from 
MS> the SOM System to search for installed SOM interfaces 
MS> (IR=InterfaceRepository).
 
Thanks, Mario.  I knew the PATH and SOMIR were used totally
differently but I hadn't really chased down all the details since the
time I installed Watcom 10.0 and got the SOMIR pointed to the Watcom
copy of the toolkit.  Made life impossible until I finally figured out
what it was.

My comment to Fred was due to some odd/erratic things happening after
about fp10.  I had re-installed VACPP 3.0 and had not checked the SOMIR
statement in config.sys (which I normally do since the Watcom fiasco). 
Sure enough, I had forgotten to change it back. After I changed the
config.sys SOMIR order to put the \os2\etc\som.ir ahead of the VACPP 3
som.ir path.  That got rid of all sorts of irritating things - like
unclosable windows, non-minimizable sessions at times, and a host of
visual builder problems. Apparently, there is a difference between the
Warp 4 SOM level and that included in the VACPP Toolkit. A case of a
little blind luck that worked out, but I'll keep your note on file.  I
was hoping to be able to get to the SOM 3 stuff before long to see if
that's even remotely portable so I'll probably REALLY foul up the SOM
setting a few times.
 
Will Honea 
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