Richard Jank wrote the following to Craig Ford, and I quote (in part):

   CF> Did you receive my e-mail regarding the problems I experenced with
   CF> the MCP server of the Y2K-fixed incarnation of Max/2?

 RJ> I could not get the MCP.EXE to extract from the MAX301P2 archive. I
 RJ> received my max and squish updates through the maxfdn network.

 RJ> Wondering if this could be your problem??

I had no problem extracting any of the files from the archive, I just
encounter a hard trap (system lock-up) when the underlying is envoked 
via my config.sys:

RUN=D:\MAX2\MCP.EXE \PIPE\MAXIMUS\MCP 3 SERVER

The result -

 12-31-1998  17:38:45  SYS3175  PID 0006  TID 0001  Slot 0007
 C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE
 c0000005
 1bd331f3
 P1=00000001  P2=00000008  P3=XXXXXXXX  P4=XXXXXXXX
 EAX=00000000  EBX=00000001  ECX=00000006  EDX=13e88314
 ESI=17c8c69c  EDI=17c8c69c
 DS=0053  DSACC=d0f3  DSLIM=1fffffff
 ES=0053  ESACC=d0f3  ESLIM=1fffffff
 FS=150b  FSACC=00f3  FSLIM=00000030
 GS=0000  GSACC=****  GSLIM=********
 CS:EIP=005b:1bd331f3  CSACC=d0df  CSLIM=1fffffff
 SS:ESP=0053:0003f9f0  SSACC=d0f3  SSLIM=1fffffff
 EBP=00000006  FLG=00012206

 PMMERGE.DLL 0004:000331f3

 ------------------------------------------------------------

 12-31-1998  17:38:58  SYS3175  PID 0006  TID 0001  Slot 0007
 C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE
 c0000005
 1bd3b266
 P1=00000001  P2=0000000c  P3=XXXXXXXX  P4=XXXXXXXX
 EAX=00000000  EBX=00000006  ECX=00000000  EDX=00000100
 ESI=00000000  EDI=00000251
 DS=0053  DSACC=d0f3  DSLIM=1fffffff
 ES=0053  ESACC=d0f3  ESLIM=1fffffff
 FS=150b  FSACC=00f3  FSLIM=00000030
 GS=0000  GSACC=****  GSLIM=********
 CS:EIP=005b:1bd3b266  CSACC=d0df  CSLIM=1fffffff
 SS:ESP=0053:0003f9c8  SSACC=d0f3  SSLIM=1fffffff
 EBP=00000000  FLG=00012216
 
 PMMERGE.DLL 0004:0003b266


The pre-fix MCP server (which I revrted to) does not generate the trap.


Regards....

Craig
aka: cford{at}ix.netcom.com
   : craig.ford{at}2001.conchbbs.com

--- timEd/2 1.10.y2k+