On 2019 Aug 29 20:06:56, you wrote to me:

 SN> ...So there is my mess, here to hoping some of it makes sense!

so i went looking on the old mystic VM and it wasn't running murder motel as i
had thought... so a quick rummage into my old OS2 setup turns it up there
running under my old RemoteAccess setup... so here's what jumped out at me...

1. MM is not multinode capable. only one user at the time.
2. my script copies the door.sys to the MM directory.

additional debugging hints:

add something to both of your bat files so you can see what the variables are
that you are passing and how they will appear in the various command lines your
scripts execute...

eg:

  @echo off
  REM THIS IS NF.BAT
  echo Running %0
  echo 1 = %1
  echo 2 = %2
  echo 3 = %3
  echo 4 = %4
  echo 5 = %5
  echo 6 = %6
  echo 7 = %7
  echo 8 = %8
  echo 9 = %9
  echo command line executed:
  echo   %0 %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
  pause
  rem **you can optionally add ansi.com here**
  echo command to execute:
  echo   c:\mystic\netfoss\netfoss.com %1
  pause
  c:\mystic\netfoss\netfoss.com %1
  if errorlevel 1 goto end
  echo command to execute:
  echo   c:\mystic\netfoss\netcom.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
  pause
  c:\mystic\netfoss\netcom.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
  c:\mystic\netfoss\netfoss.com /u
  :end
  echo END OF NF.BAT


  @echo off
  REM THIS IS MM.BAT
  echo Running %0
  echo 1 = %1
  echo 2 = %2
  echo 3 = %3
  echo 4 = %4
  echo 5 = %5
  echo 6 = %6
  echo 7 = %7
  echo 8 = %8
  echo 9 = %9
  echo command line executed:
  echo   %0 %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
  pause
  c:
  cd \mystic\doors\mm
  echo command to execute:
  echo   copy c:\mystic\temp%4\door.sys c:\mystic\doors\mm
  copy c:\mystic\temp%4\door.sys c:\mystic\doors\mm
  pause
  echo command to execute:
  echo   mm46 murder.cfg c:\mystic\doors\mm\door.sys
  pause
  mm46 murder.cfg c:\mystic\doors\mm\door.sys
  echo END OF MM.BAT


using the above, you will have to hit enter 6 times as the scripts run... this
allows you to check each of the 6 command lines and the raw var data dumps...
remote users will not see the pauses and will think the system has locked up...
do not allow remote users to execute your netfoss doors until you have figured
out what is going on and fixed it... then you can REM the pause lines and let
the users have at it...


)\/(ark

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set
them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
... Of course, anything that came close to a flame is BBQ round here.
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