20 Jun 08 10:28, Cindy Haglund wrote to Joe Bruchis:


 JB>> Roger has alot of patience. I'm glad things worked-out for you.

 CH>  heh. He and Frank Vest Both. We had a couple problems where in OOPS
 CH> forgot about having to change all the addresses (for times each) for
 CH> each echo. Glad I don't have too many. You have to change it for the
 CH> area (point addy), the route (boss node), the.. something, same addy
 CH> and then what is in the origin line (point addy). Got that done fine.
 CH> No problem. That's where you learn your point and boss node addies
 CH> by heart. Got the host/user/mail settings okay in ppoint. Got that
 CH> irex changes okay. Figured out the areafix password was tooo short so
 CH> had to go fix that.

 CH> And here's the bad thing I realized I had done and shame faced
 CH> confessed to my Sainted former boss node. And yes, Roger, too.
 CH> what which after all the other adjustments and triple checks was
 CH> why binkd wasn't working. Still couldn't get my feed.

 CH> I should let y'all know my gaff because this way I'll never ever do
 CH> it again. Anywhere. I should have been flogged. And then on the
 CH> bright side, I know I'll have helped someone avoid this bad do.

 CH> The lesson is: Never ever ever never touch 'password password' in
 CH> rexcfgw.exe General (info) unless your boss node tells you to. I
 CH> accidental hit on it you see because I remembered from ages ago (the
 CH> last time I had to fiddle in there) somewhere the session password
 CH> had to go. It does but under session password in node manager and you
 CH> can't touch that if you touch this one. I did and put in the current
 CH> session pwrd. Then I thought no and thought I had NOT saved changes
 CH> but I did. SO after I realized I did this when Frank told me you
 CH> should be able to click on 'session password'... nope. The highlight
 CH> skipped over that line. So back to the rexcfgw file name at the Irex
 CH> prompt in DOS (hey you know I know that filename by heart now?) Frank
 CH> had me type what I thought I had typed in the 'password password'
 CH> line. (This is hidden by stars until you click on it if access is
 CH> allowed by the highlight being there)... -p (and the pwrd) . didn't
 CH> work! So I used the other pwrd I had and that worked! YEAH! After
 CH> that I could go where session password is and put the new one with
 CH> the right number of characters, into. THEN binkd worked. Beautifully.

 CH> Now see what you missed Joe? :) :)


 CH> PS: before anybody reminds me let me do it for you. Yes Irex has a
 CH> built in help screen you can get to when you click on anything and
 CH> hit F1. I had forgotten about that and then again why use it when I
 CH> had Frank in YM and Roger in Email? :)

 CH> Besides I loathe those help screens. You know how they are?
 CH> Especially the new ones where you get a list of possible problems and
 CH> answers, none of which match yours? LOL!

I visit IREX config so little these days, I've taken to putting the link
and password info in a text file. If it ever changes or I find that I did
as you did, I can refer back to the old config in the text file. Just make
sure you edit the text file if you change anything.

                R\%/itt



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