Name Router 4.1-7 Update

The release of 4.1-7 fixes two problems which may affect sites under certain circumstances.

Problem with Name Router 4.1-6 and earlier with PMDF 5.2

Due to a small bug in the PMDF API library, Name Router will fail to dequeue the first message in its input queue. If the channel program has two or more messages in the queue it will successfully process all but the first. No error message indication is given.

Innosoft has provided a fix for this in their PMDF Tech Support pages . If your PMDFSHR.EXE is later than 10-Dec-1998 then you should not encounter the bug.

To fix the problem, either download the new PMDFSHR image, or upgrade Name Router to version 4.1-7 (which avoids triggering the bug). When upgrading from an earlier version of 4.1, you do not need to perform the post installation tasks listed, nor do you need to regenerate your configuration or NAMES.DAT database. Note that Name Router 4.1-7 will also work with earlier PMDF versions.

Missing routines in Dummy PMDF library

Previous versions of Name Router 4.1 were missing two routines from the dummy PMDF library. This library is used where Name Router is being installed on a system without PMDF. It would result in spurious linker error messages on linking. The subsequent operation of Name Router would not be affected.

This problem did not apply to sites running Name Router as a PMDF channel program.