NAPS.EXE
This is "Network Adapters and Protocols" — the modern replacement for the deprecated
MPTS.EXE (confirmed by MPTS.COM's deprecation-notice text). Its own strings reveal
it is a VX-REXX application: built with Sundial Systems/Watcom's VX-REXX visual-REXX
development system, not a native C/C++ program from scratch. Its message catalog
references IBMLXCFG directly, showing the modern GUI still drives the same
underlying configuration engine (IBMLXCFG.DLL) that the legacy MPTS notebook used —
only the front-end has changed.
Versions
| Date | Version | Size | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-01 | (no IBM BLDLEVEL stamp — VX-REXX/Watcom build) | 380,596 bytes | — |
Notes
The file is mostly the compiled VX-REXX application payload appended to a tiny, generic
pmexe.exe bootstrap stub (shared by all VX-REXX-built programs), which loads
VROBJ.DLL (the VX-REXX runtime engine) at startup and hands off execution to
it — hence the small declared code size relative to the file's total size. Help and
message files: NAPS_EN.HLP, NAPS_EN.MSG.