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In article <1992Sep08.234549.16261@vpnet.chi.il.us> hb@vpnet.chi.il.us (hank barta) writes:
>From: hb@vpnet.chi.il.us (hank barta)
>Subject: SPX communications on OS/2 failing.
>Keywords:  SPX OS/2
>Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 23:45:49 GMT




>Hi Folks,

>I'm porting (to OS/2 1.3) the server side of an MS-DOS client/server 
>application that uses Novell SPX for communications. So far I'm having no
>luck at establishing robust SPX communications on the OS/2 side.

>I can establish the connection and transmit one data packet in each
>direction, but attempts to transmit more than one packet cause either
>the client or the server node to halt on a trap 3 in "SPX$" driver.
>This is using a 'test' client under OS/2. The MS-DOS client kills the
>OS/2 server on the first packet transmit and the OS/2 test client is
>not able to connect to the MS-DOS server.

>I have read and re-read the manuals, and I am doing everything that is
>obviously required, but I am wondering if something is missing or not
>obvious. If anyone has successfully implemented SPX communications under
>OS/2, I would appreciate hearing about what you did to make it work.

>If it matters, this is a multithreaded application and I am using a
>RAM semaphore to serialize access to the SPX library.

>Thanks for your help. Post or respond to barta@pswin.chi.il.us as
>you see fit.

>hank

I have the same problem when using SPX from a MDVM w/ VIPX.  The way I hear 
it, it's that there's a break point (INT 3) that was left in the SPX portion 
of the Netware Requester code.  Because the kernel isn't expecting a 
breakpoint (like, there's no kernel debugger to to intercept the INT 3), you 
get the default action, which is a TRAP 3.  

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