On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Sean Dennis wrote to mark lewis:

 ml> every once in a while i have similar with BAT files that are 
 ml> executed in another session via "start"... is that CMD just 
 ml> basically a BAT file or is it REXX?

 SD> It's just a standard batch file.  I've never had any problems with
 SD> REXX scripts. 

yeah, i never had any problems like these with Warp3 either... it is rather
disconcerting...

 ml> i remember some basic programs that also didn't but they did in 
 ml> their
 ml> init code... it was quite the shock to find that... on the com port
 ml> access, though, i've used SIO for so long and i've always had the com
 ml> port sharing mode enabled... especially for using PMLM ;) O:)

 SD> Yeah, I've never had any problems except for that occasional odd
 SD> lockup.  I will say that I had it a lot more when I ran DOS-based
 SD> BBS software than when I ran OS/2-based BBS software though.  I
 SD> guess it's just one of those things. 

as above, i've never had problems when i was running Warp3... not with any
DOS software or any scripts... but then, i run a lot different DOS software
load than you and others who have had problems over the years...

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