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   Message 668 of 1,458   
   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 ...   
      
      
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