Paul, at 08:09 on May 02 1997, you wrote to David Drummond ...

PE>>> OS/2 hung again.

DD>> What is it you're doing to make it hang?  The only time I 
DD>> get hangs here is 

PE> Nothing that I know of, otherwise I would presumably have a 
PE> reproducable problem.  Maybe half of the times, it appears 
PE> to hang after running Squalid.  I don't have the source to 
PE> squalid, but even if I did, I don't think there's anything I 
PE> can do, because it doesn't hang IN squalid.

Have you thought of trying something like AFIX.  It is a native OS/2 package.

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Squish area processor, 0.44 - (C)1994 Jesper Br”ndum
reading afix.cfg ...

Afix  [nodeaddress] [options]

Scan         - Scan netmail area                     -g
AutoCreate   - Create from badarea                   -a[,]
Link         - Link area/groups for node             -s sync afix.cfg
Unlink       - Unlink area/groups for node           -c check everything (SLOW)
List         - List areas/groups visible for node    -f
Query,Linked - List linked areas for node            -v verbose mode (-x1)
Unlinked     - List unlinked areas for node          -x debugg level 0-9
Passive      - Passivate groups for node
Active       - Activate groups for node

Help         - Send HELP to node
Report       - Send LINKED to node
Avail        - Send LIST to node
Notify       - Sends LINKED to all nodes
 ... ActiveAreas, ActivePt, PassivePt

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David
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