Hello Ulrich!

 US> in the meantime I've got an OS32(32-bit) compile passed with OpenWatcom
 US> 1.9

 US> With this OS/2 (32-bit) version of rev 3.3.3 code I can reproduce the
 US> crash reported  =:) long detailed report you'll find under

 =>>   https://sourceforge.net/p/makenl/bugs/17/

 US> In summary .. its not about Allowunpub or other parameters ...
 US> The routine crashes after the segments are compiled and makenl tries
 US> to find the highest message number (~ SearchMaxMSG)
 US> The difference between the DOS revision (reg56-1.log) and the OS2 revision
 US> (reg56.log) you'll find in the report the reg56-1.log shows, that there
 US> are much more steps outstanding until makenl will finish with success ...

 US> success:

 Nice that you are making progress. People who can do this level of debugging
 on OS/2 are getting scarce.

 Keep up the good work, but remember you have a life as well.

Kees

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