To: lawtech@topica.com
From: "K. McNeal" <k_mcneal@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Locking all but one user out of Portal
Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 00:32:37 -0400

Depending on the version, MKS is super-buggy. I haven't found an MKS version 
without a significant bug yet.

As far as MarkZ was concerned, he was with IBM, and not Microsoft, and was 
the inventor of the EXE format. I know cause I have access to very inside 
information about DOS and OS/2.

Lawson is native, and the COBOL compiler is native. The lainetd/lalogin is 
native. To give you a start do a "univver lacobrts.dll"

Kwane


>From: John Eisenschmidt <jweisen@eisenschmidt.org>
>To: lawtech@topica.com
>Subject: Re: Locking all but one user out of Portal
>Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 21:51:49 -0400
>
>Thanks to everyone who did respond. I actually was able to acoomplish
>what I need today, and I did open another wonderful interactive ticket
>with GSC today who told me my request was outside the scope of
>support. I also put in an enhancement request that no one will ever
>read or do anything about.
>
>Those of you on Windows, have you ever found any of your problems to
>be related to the MKS Toolkit, and not specifically to Lawson? Without
>seeing Lawson's code (the stuff they don't give you), I guess I can't
>clearly understand...what the hell they're doing:
>
>D:\LAW\ENV\bin> file ladb.exe
>ladb.exe:       extended DOS executable (.EXE)  -- Win32 or NT Portable 
>format
>
>And one might wonder, "is this for real?" And then we foolishly head
>the file and see the mark of Zbikowski:
>
>D:\LAW\ENV\bin> head %gendir%/bin/ladb.exe
>MZ [smily face, lightning bolt, eqyptian...]
>
>	http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/02/PE/default.aspx
>
>         The first bytes of a PE file begin with the
>         traditional MS-DOS header, called an
>         IMAGE_DOS_HEADER. The only two values of any
>         importance are e_magic and e_lfanew. The e_lfanew
>         field contains the file offset of the PE header. The
>         e_magic field (a WORD) needs to be set to the value
>         0x5A4D. There's a #define for this value, named
>         IMAGE_DOS_SIGNATURE.  In ASCII representation,
>         0x5A4D is MZ, the initials of Mark Zbikowski, one of
>         the original architects of MS-DOS.
>
>The stuff in %GENDIR%/bin is native (or seems it), the COBOL compiler
>is native, other than telnet services, what is this providing? There
>is the System V shared memory stuff it uses for its own process
>housekeeping, but without digging through the code we don't get to
>see, I'm lost (and I've seen the Lawson/Unix environment seize up like
>an engine with no oil, and the Windows side is *bored*). Anyone care
>to shed some light?
>
>It also might be easier if MKS had some of the nice System V tools
>that GNU doesn't have.
>
> > I do this all the time.
> > No issues.
>
>I don't have issues Eric, I have a subscription.
>
>Thanks again to everyone who played along at home today,
>John