BR> So, it seems I have a problem getting Max to 
 BR> communicate with Squish.  I've quadruple-checked (at 
 BR> the very least) the pathnames and tags in both 
 BR> MSGAREA.CTL and SQUISH.CFG.

 BR> Any ideas?  Anyone?

did you tell max to put the echotoss.log in the right place... and use

squish out squash -fdirve letter:\where the echotoss log is... as in

squish out squash -fc:\squish\echotoss.log

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