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