Bob Jones wrote in a message to Alan Hess:

 AH> Is there a file area manager for Maximus/2?  I've used mfm for 
 AH> years, but, for some reason, it no longer will run under Mdos in 
 AH> eComstation or Warp 4.  I get Runtime error 200 at 0F40:0091.  
 AH> I've unzipped a new copy, with same results.  *adh*

 BJ> It has been some time since I used it, but I did have MFM running
 BJ> under OS/2 Warp, Fix pak 9.  

 BJ> How many file areas do you have defined?  Once you get over a
 BJ> screen full for the MFM selection screen, it gets *interesting* to
 BJ> try to select the area. 

 BJ> Are you running silt with one of the -2 options.  I use -2u (if I
 BJ> remember the parsing properly) to generate both a Max 2.0 and a Max
 BJ> 3.0 set of control files. If I remember correctly, MFM uses the Max
 BJ> 2.0 control file structures, which does not cleanly support the max
 BJ> 3.0 group area structure, but MFM can successfully use the 2.0
 BJ> control files generated by Max 3.0 as long as there are not too
 BJ> many file areas.

I use -2a,  for whatever that's worth...   (And I can't remember why,  either!)

I was just saying to Maurice,  elsewhere,  that I'd be happy with 2.x
functionality under linux.  The whole groups thing struck me as cumbersome
when I read about it,  and I've never done anything with it,  in spite of
being involved in some discussions that led to its being implemented in the
first place.

I don't do anything of the sort with the file areas here (though I probably
should),  but instead use a "groups menu" implemented in MECCA
here for my message areas,  which have always been a primary focus for my
system.  The original code was passed to me by somebody who was also using
it for file areas...

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