Date:  Sat, 16 Nov 2019 23:08:27 -0700 (MST)
From:  <dougb007 at telus dot net>
Subject:  Re: [pmm2-U] PMMail 3.24 beta 1

On 2019-11-15, at 16:36:41, Neil Waldhauer wrote:
>
>A beta build of PMMail for OS/2 version 3.24 is available on the 
FTP
>site.
>
>ftp://pmdevpub:anyname%40anydomain at ftp.os2voice dot org/
>
>PMMail is built with GCC 4.9.2 and requires libcx. To satisfy this
>requirement, you can use Arca Noae Package Manager or yum. 
The package
>to
>install is named libcx.
>
>The filename of the beta version is pmmail-3-24-00-2373.wpi. This
>version
>is time-limited, and operation will degrade after the limit is 
reached.
>To reset the limit, reinstall the release version.
>
>Please give feedback to the PMMail users list.

Okay, I finally found a bit of time for this. So far, this is what I have 
found:

PMMUTIL.EXE is not included. PMMUTIL.ICO is included.  
(PMMUTIL replaces the badly named Migration tool).

Since PMMUTIL.EXE is not included, it cannot run for the update, 
and therefore fails to remove the obsolete files (such as 
DRCTL017.* which may be in ....\PMMail\bin). Not having the file 
present probably causes the failure to create the PMMail Utility icon 
too.

DRCTL is another package that needs to be installed by ANPM 
(RPM/YUM). Note that there are probably many copies of 
DRCTL017.DLL on your system, which may need to be removed 
before installing from ANPM (RPM/YUM). You may also have older 
copies (like DRCTL016.DLL), which should be left for the programs 
that need them. The DRCTRL package should be installed BEFORE 
attempting to install, or update, PMMail. There should be only ONE 
copy of DRCTL017.DLL, and it should be in 
 at unixroot/usr/lib/drctl017.dll. If you insist on managing that stuff 
without using RPM/YUM, it can be anywhere in your LIBPATH, but 
don't blame PMMail, when something doesn't get done properly.

Some details need attention, but the program seems to work okay.

More when I find more time...
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