Oh boy, talk about a panic ... I was playing around with some new formatting on my archives and added a new TNextButtonIA tag ... but I screwed up the markup and coded it like this :
<TNextButtonIA chop> Thread Next </TNextButton> When I ran mhonarc to reformat the archive, my system quickly ran out of memory AND swap ... and subsequently went all pear shaped. I had to hit the BRS to fix it. Once I got the system back up, I tried to reformat the archive again ... this time watching 'top' to see what was happening ... and I saw the memory & swap skyrocket. After looking at the mrc file, I found the unbalanced tag, fixed it ... and mhonarc worked fine. I am processing my archives using mha-preview, if that makes any difference. I would have expected mhonarc to detect the unbalanced tag and grouse about it. david