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|    Roy Witt to Bill Gordon    |
|    REX is waiting for config files to be un    |
|    20 Dec 12 17:20:03    |
      01 Jan 70 00:00, Joe Delahaye wrote to Bill Gordon:               JD> Re: REX is waiting for config files to be unlocked        JD> By: Bill Gordon to Joe Delahaye on Thu Dec 20 2012 14:05:16               >> Yeah, but I still got that cycle and the message... It may be working,        >> but what's causing the cycle and the message?               JD> If you exit from the rex config utility the wrong way, it will leave        JD> a busy semaphore, thus preventing Rex from starting up, or        JD> continuing. Remove that semaphone, and all will work once more. I        JD> have my Rex startup batch file check for that and if it exists, it        JD> will remove it.              As simple as a batch file search for *.0, as in rexbusy.0 ... then 'if       exist rexbusy.0 del rexbusy.0' and then loop back to restart Irex...              The rexbusy.0 semaphore should be in your 'flags' or 'semaphore' directory       as configed in Rexcfg.exe ...                      R\%/itt - K5RXT/887 - 1 DAY               The End of the World!               Amateur Radio Station K5RXT, having registered on the N0D website,        www.nowzerodays.com, is hereby designated Official N0D Doomsday Radio        Station Number 887 - a member of the Doomsday Special Event Network        for as long as we last!                     --- Ya have ta ask yourself: What Would Roy Witt Do?        * Origin: Texas Lone-Star - Texan, American, USAian (1:387/22)    |
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