Hello andrew!
Thought I'd pass along status and also importantly what it took to get to this point

first, I was using what I thought was curren version of open-watcom from sourceforge.net - found more recent version from github, applied that
got the exact same error - so uninstalled, reboot, re-install, re-compile, still got same error - had to uninstall, reboot, tried to delete c:\watcom folder and all subfolders - got error  - turns out had to unlock nmpbind.exe (in c:\watcom\binp) did that, deleted folder, rebooted, re-installed, rebooted, recompiled, this time everything compiled

I do hope who ever is working on open-watcom is reading this.. so they can fix that problem


still not out of the woods yet though - now getting a different error

hpt toss scan pack
SMAPI ERROR: wrongly sized subfield occured!

any ideas?

Thanks,
Michael

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