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|    Message 712 of 1,458    |
|    Roy Witt to Robert Wolfe    |
|    2.31 official?    |
|    08 Feb 13 16:51:51    |
      Robert Wolfe wrote to Roy Witt:               RW>>> Yes and yes. v2.31 was a fix for Linux system users and doesn't        RW>>> have any problems working in a Windows environment.               RW>> I believe it has some issues with resolving DNS on outbound connects        RW>> though with newer distro releases. Something to do with some        RW>> libraries.               RW>> I've not run into that problem in a WinXP environment. I believe        RW>> 2.31 was a release that addressed the way Linux systems used        RW>> outdated libraries.               RW> I've run into this issue on Win Vista and 7 machines where Internet        RW> Rex just hangs when run from the ocmmand line using the -f and -s        RW> command line parameters. This does not seem to be the case when        RW> running the parameters as an internal event.              That is an old, old problem with Rex...it is supposed to be able to read       the nodelist and do a fetch or send, but it won't...not much you can do       about it, since for all intents and purposes, Irex is abandonware...                      R\%/itt                     --- GoldED+/W32 1.1.5-31012        * Origin: Texas Lone-Star - Texan, American, USAian (1:387/22)    |
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