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|    Message 558 of 1,458    |
|    Roy Witt to Gregory J. Deyss    |
|    Irex in a seeming endless loop    |
|    12 Oct 12 16:11:41    |
       Gregory J. Deyss wrote to all:               GJD> Internet Rex 2.29 (Win95/NT 32-bit), Thu Oct 11 18:11:33        GJD> 201 + 18:11:32        GJD> Command line: -daemon        GJD> % 18:11:33 Starting rescan...        GJD> % 18:11:33 Done rescan        GJD> + 18:11:34 Config files may have changed: reloading.        GJD> why does this happen, I backup my files just in case and it seemed        GJD> to clear the issue.              That's a normal event, unless you're seeing this in a continuous screen       flashing by...in which case there is a config problem that Rex doesn't       like.               GJD> here is my rexstart.bat        GJD> rem        GJD> del /q c:\rex\sems\rexup.0        GJD> del /q c:\rex\sems\rexbusy.0        GJD> net start "internet rex"        GJD> c:\rex\rexw.exe -daemon        GJD> * the rex icon still appears within the system tray               GJD> also               GJD> I backed up the file rexup.0 within the sems directory              Rex uses *.0 files to tell itself that there is activity being processed.              rexup.0 tells rex not to load a 2nd time because it is already running.       rexbusy.0 tells rex to wait for an event to finish before it starts       another. i.e. you shouldn't be saving or backing up these files anywhere       that rex can find them.              PS - what does the /q flag do in a DOS delete command?               R\%/itt                     ... Mark Owen: "Hey, did you ever hear anything about that beer?       ... Fellow SEAL: "You believed that s**t, I bet you voted for change too,       ... SUCKER."                     --- GoldED+/W32 with D'Bridge 3.82        * Origin: Texas Lone-Star - Texan, American, USAian (1:387/22)    |
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