SP> Why is it running under WARP .... just because it can?
SP>
SP> IM> Would the answer help in your diagnosis?
SP>
SP> It's a variable!
The client's motivation for chosing his operating system is a factor in 
diagnosing his problem!? [:DDD After 16 years I thought I'd heard 
everything... [:D
Lemme bottom-line this for you: I don't respond well to questions such 
as, "Why are you using >that< operating system?" Any help will be 
appreciated but biases will not. This is not a kludge. OS/2 is a popular, 
established operating system which is still under active development and 
which is specifically supported by Novell. Novell under OS/2 is not an 
unusual setup.
SP> You see the exiting of a program into "no-where-zone" to be related
SP> to a cable problem?  
I have to look at all the common denominators, Scott, and cable wiring 
became a big question mark. I've seen you posting around here and you 
are apparently a fairly knowledgable individual. Surely you've been 
around enough to see some pretty strange cabling, termination, and 
driver problems.
SP> Why would it have worked fine until exiting?
Exactly my problem. 
SP> Sure sounds to me like the operating system shell is lost somehow.
That answers most of the symptoms. Can you suggest something a little 
more specific? Remember that the operating system (except for the 
transient portion of the command interpreter), drivers, NOS, and the 
client and stuff are all resident so why no error messages? Why these 
angle-brackets? 
SP> I'd be interested in what you find.
Really? Well, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt: Although the wire 
colour-coding was all the same, it was nonconforming. Comspec is being 
set correctly. The 3Com card drivers have been updated. I redid the 
cable ends but the problem persists. I haven't applied the latest 
patches yet.
With all the Novell installations, configurations, drivers, layers, etc. 
surely to gawd I'm not the first one to have experienced something like 
this. Surely someone's experienced something simlar and can suggest 
where to look for the problem.
Take care and TTYL.
 ** "Stupidity is the only true capital crime." -- R.A. Heinlein
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