27 Jun 08 18:00, Cindy Haglund wrote to all:

 CH> Okay  ye puter geeks listen up :)

 CH> "The semaphor tell irex that it is already running in case you try to
 CH> start another instance of the program.

True.

 CH> flvest: It also tells the program if the configuration program is
 CH> running so that Irex doesn't try to fetch mail and mess stuff up.

Right.

 CH> A convouluted mess."-re a boss node of mine.

His opinion.

 CH> Okay. Once upaon a time years ago this happened. I forget how but I
 CH> ended up exiting from ppoint (a dos apps program I use for my
 CH> point)... the wrong way...  So when I tried to get back in it blinked
 CH> open shut really fast. My boss node had me to into ppoint via windows
 CH> exploreer and delete the semiphor files. Bang. It worked.

Ppoint uses semaphor files? News to me.

 CH> So once upon a time today Windows (the cpu is getting ancient)...
 CH> locked up while I was in ppoint...

Is this in W98? That's the only Windoz OS I know that does that.

 CH> Later when I got it back up ppoint was fine. No semiphor file. Hmm.
 CH> That is intersting but I'm not complaining.

Ppoint doesn't use semaphor files.

 CH> Windows locked up again while I was in the polling process. Later
 CH> when I got the beast back up... ppoint opned fine but the poling the
 CH> host blinked open and shut. SO Off to Irex we go! and got rid of the
 CH> semaphor files.

 CH> MY question is. Does anybody know exaclty why? More info on what my
 CH> boss node provided?

When IREX exits properly, the semaphors "rexbusy.0" and
"rexup.0" it
creates is deleted. When your system crashes, IREX can't delete these
files. I wrote a batch file that goes like this, so you don't have to go
looking for the file you want to delete. You can run it from a DOS window.


REM ==========NO_REX.BAT==============

:NO-REXUP
cd\irex\flags
if not exist \irex\flags\rexup.0 goto STARTREX
if exist \irex\flags\rexbusy.0 goto NOTBUSY
goto end

:STARTREX
if exist \irex\flags\rexbusy.0 del \irex\sema\rexbusy.0
cd\irex
rexw.exe -daemon -tray
goto end

:NOTBUSY
del \irex\flags\rexbusy.0
goto end

:end
exit

I also use a batch file to start my reader that stops my mail tosser from
tossing mail until the reader is closed. That way, there are no messages
sent out that I haven't reviewed for errors or a message that goes out
before I finish writing it. That could be several hours, as my job
requires that I be 'on-call' and I could leave in the middle of a message.

                R\%/itt



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