Subj : Internet Rex
To : Rj Clay
From : Roy Witt
Date : Wed Oct 03 2012 04:58 pm
03 Oct 12 07:48, Rj Clay wrote to Roy Witt:
RW>> 29 Sep 12 18:48, Rj Clay wrote to Roy Witt:
RC>>> Would I be correct in thinking that if it's greyed out and not
RC>>> accessible, I likely did set a password there?
RW>> That or your REX install is running with corrupt files.
RC> And either case can be resolved by starting from scratch.
Absolutely.
RC>>> I don't recall and it's not in my notes but the basic
RC>>> configuration was copied over from other systems... (several
RC>>> times...<g>)
RW>> Hmmmm.
RC> Yep.<g> The last working install (prior to where it is now) was
RC> on an old PC that I stopped using due to hardware problems. The hard
RC> drives were still accessible so I backed up their contents in various
RC> ways (images of the drive partitions as well as a simple copy of the
RC> their contents). Since then, I've copied the irex install from that
RC> to various other systems, attempting to get it working again. And of
RC> course, this happened over some time, as I wasn't devoting much time
RC> to it... Finally copied it over to the current system (Debian v3 in
RC> a VM) where it worked well enough to get me to decide to devote more
RC> time to getting it operational.
I have a CD around here that has one of my first registered installs of
Irex archived on it. That was a working model and I should be able to
retrieve it at paste into a newer system and read the setup. Even if it
was on a DOS 6.2 system.
RC>>> I wonder if I should try setting it up from scratch (including
RC>>> the entry of the registration info) on a clean install...
RW>> If you have preserved the reg info, that should be a good way to go.
RC> I've a print out of that somewhere, but in this case since the
RC> old install was working well enough otherwise I just went into
RC> rexcfgl in another window for the registration info.
That works...
RW>> Use freshly unpacked files from a clean REX archive.
RC> That's what I ended up doing. It appears to be operational but I
RC> think
RC> needs a lot of configuration. (And more understanding, on my
RC> part...<g>)
That will come with time and use of the software. I'm not a programmer or
even a guru of Irex, just plenty of time and experience with using it.
R\%/itt
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