MPTS.COM
This is the shim that intercepts a bare MPTS command at the OS/2 prompt
(.COM resolves before .EXE) and redirects it to
NAPS.EXE, warning that MPTS.EXE is deprecated, unless
MPTS.EXE is invoked with its extension explicitly. Unlike every other file in
\IBMCOM, it is not IBM-built: it's a compiled REXX script, produced with
Dennis Bareis's third-party REXX2EXE runtime compiler — a well-known OS/2
community tool. It carries no IBM BLDLEVEL version stamp and its internal module name is
the generic placeholder EXE_S2.
Versions
| Date | Version | Size | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-09-25 | (no IBM BLDLEVEL stamp — third-party REXX2EXE build) | 39,504 bytes | — |
Notes
Imports the REXX interpreter API directly — the clearest technical
confirmation this is a REXX-hosting executable rather than a native compiled program. See
MPTS.EXE for the deprecation notice text this shim's script presumably displays.