VIII. Debugging your server
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Unfortunately, sometimes things don't always go as you want them to. 
Sometimes the server acts oddly or crashes & burns.  Sometimes a search that
should work just fine, doesn't.  Remember there is a debug version of the
server as part of the standard MMS generation (in fact, using MMS, one can't
even create a non- debug version of the server without explicitly saying to do
so).  So keep a debug copy of the server around and when things don't work
right, examine the log files and try to duplicate, using a client and the
debug server running against a different port, the problem.  If you find an
error and fix it, please post the error and your correction to VMSGOPHER-L
(just code fragments or OpenVMS DIFFs against the *current* copies of the
source from one of the major archives, please, not an entire source file or an
unidentifiable fragment ;-) so others can benefit.

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