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Skriven 2007-01-18 09:59:20 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 47629 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
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17 Jan 07 22:38, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Roy Witt:

 MvdV> Hello Roy!

 MvdV> On Tuesday January 16 2007 16:58, you wrote to me:

 JK>>>> windows versions, but the linux version works great.

 MvdV>>> That is not what others tell me. I am not a hundred percent
 MvdV>>> sure, but IIRC, it was Robert Couture who had serious problems
 MvdV>>> with the Linux version. Goes to show that for every man that
 MvdV>>> has a problem, there will be another (wo)man who never had it...

 RW>> Like Thom LaCosta. He never did get Irex to work on his system. That
 RW>> must have something to do with the 'man' and not the software, as
 RW>> you already stated.

 MvdV> You are twisting my words. I never said it has something to do with
 MvdV> the man.

No, you've stated that it's the man's fault.

"Goes to show that for every man that has a problem, there will be another
(wo)man who never had it..." - MvdVlist

 MvdV> What I meant was something like this: Suppose mailer X has
 MvdV> a problem when there are more that 30 links configured. Man A has
 MvdV> 31 linlks configured and runs into the problem. Man B had never
 MvdV> more than 29 links configured, does not have the problem and was
 MvdV> never even aware it existed.

Goes to show that for every person that has a problem, there could be
another person who may never have it.

 MvdV>>> I now use the Window version of Irex.

 MvdV> [..]

 MvdV>>> It works but it has some annoying bugs and shortcomings.

 MvdV> Such as only sending the attachment but not sending the contents of
 MvdV> the mail itself when there is a crash mail with attachment.

I sent RC10 an attachement for several months without that problem. When I
sent her a netmail telling her to look in her inbound, there they were.
She and her software had been ignoring the fact that someone (a RIN) would
be sending her a nodelist update, via MakeNL. The ZC got a copy too, but
not until this had been going on for a spell.

 MvdV>>> It also seem to crash occasionally, (ask Roy) but I never had
 MvdV>>> that particular problem.

 RW>> The only time it ever crashed was because of a 'configuration'
 RW>> problem

 MvdV> A programme should not crash because of a configuration error. If
 MvdV> it does, there is serious problem. Definitely a bug.

If the configuration was corrected and the program didn't crash again,
there must have been a 'configuration' problem, not a bug.

 RW>> I had and only when you logged on.

 MvdV> Others reported the same problem. And with others than me calling
 MvdV> in. It is well known bug.

It hasn't happened here since I corrected that configuration.

 RW>> Once I corrected that, it hasn't crashed again.

 MvdV> You found a way to avoid running into the condition that made it
 MvdV> crash. Good for you, but it did not make the bug go away, it is
 MvdV> still there.

I've found that it's a problem with configuration. i.e. I've had it crash
when first starting up. The cure for that is to check for *.0 files that
IREX creates. If it finds rexup.0 it shuts down. If you exit IREX without
using the Alt-X keys, it will leave rexup.0 in the folder and IREX will
never run until you manually or by batch file, delete it.

 MvdV> Pity you do not remember exactly what it was that you did to
 MvdV> "correct" the problem. It could have been helpful to others.

I may still have the logs and might be able to determine what it was from
those.

 RW>>  Having tweaked it now for 5 or 6 years, it's pretty stable IMO.

 MvdV> Pretty stable, but buggy...

I wouldn't call it buggy, it just has some quirks that if the configs
aren't done right, it will de-stablize.

               R\%/itt




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