On Thu, 21 Aug 2014, Andrew Leary wrote to mark lewis:

 AL>> It seems to be related to the Universal (combined DOS/OS2) 
 AL>> version. 6.00.18 has worked fine for me for a long time, but it 
 AL>> doesn't seem to get along with recent versions of binkd2e.exe.

 ml> i understood that the v6 allfix stuff didn't have a universal 
 ml> flavor... something to do with the special loader that was used 
 ml> with the previous stuff wasn't available any more???

 AL> 6.00.18 was the last gamma version that Harald Harms released.  

hummmm... that's why i didn't know about it... my allfix FDN areas (and
numerous others) were disconnected for quite some time years back and i missed
a lot of new files that were distributed... never did figure out why or how
those areas got disconnected...

 AL> The more recent 6.xx versions released by Bob Seaborn do not have 
 AL> the Universal version available.

right, that's what i was referring to... thanks for the clarification ;)

 AL>> It does not seem to be a problem in combination with
 AL>> binkd2klibc.exe.

 ml> that's my situation but with the v5 allfix stuff... the last of 
 ml> the original distribution before harald stopped working on it...

 AL> I probably should drop the universal version and go with the
 AL> straight OS/2 version.  I've been reluctant to do that, because I
 AL> don't have an OS/2 version key, only my DOS key and the Universal
 AL> version key.

i only have the universal key... i don't know that the universal one is the
problem, though... you might find the same problem with the regular os/2 one...
i'm thinking that it depends on the compiler used which means the libraries
used... how one would find out what dlls are used?

 AL> Also, due to some file format changes along the way, I basically 
 AL> would have to dump my entire current setup and recreate it.  The 
 AL> current conversion utilities don't seem to be able to convert my 
 AL> setup to the latest version.  What I'm using now works, so it's 
 AL> fairly low on the priority list to change over.

i hear ya there...

)\/(ark