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echo: irex
to: Robert Wolfe
from: Roy Witt
date: 2008-08-05 10:57:50
subject: Help?

04 Aug 08 14:42, Robert Wolfe wrote to Roy Witt:


 >>
 >> 16 Jul 08 00:58, Sam Bright wrote to Roy Witt:
 >>
 >> Have you added 'exit' to your batch file that starts REX?
 >>
 >>  >>
 >>  >> 15 Jul 08 02:27, Sam Bright wrote to All:
 >>
 >>  >>  SB>        This might not be specific to irex but
it's where I'm
 >>  >> having a
 >>  >>  SB> problem. I switched my bbs over from a win98 machine to a
 >> win2k.
 >>  >> Now
 >>  >>  SB> my irex window from a batch file calling rexw.exe -daemon
 >> -tray..
 >>  >> Now
 >>  >>  SB> after a while the window gets a press any key and stalls
 >> irex.
 >>  >>
 >>  >> W2k doesn't seem to know about paths. I worked around that by
 >> running
 >>  >> my batch file from the Irex folder. (see below)
 >>
 >>  SB>      Thanks for the suggestion but that didn't solve my problem.
 >>  SB> Neither did omitting the -tray parameter. It's as if it goes past
 >> 25
 >>  SB> lines then a hit any key comes up. Hitting a key does nothing but
 >> add
 >>  SB> more hit any key prompts. This doesn't happen right away, it's
 >> after
 >>  SB> it runs an event and goes and gets mail or binkp session.

 RW> Windows 2000 DOES know about paths if you set them up right in your
 RW> enviroment settings.  I can not remember off the top of my head how
 RW> to get to the environment variable settings right now though.

I've never been able to find it.

                R\%/itt



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