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  • updating (at last)

    From Dallas Hinton@1:153/715 to all on Fri May 8 11:49:54 2015
    Hi all!

    I'm finally getting around to updating!! I've been running 5.x on Windows XP 32
    bit with Binkley.

    I've installed 6.00.24 (DOS version) and walked through the update steps. I have some questions I'd appreciate your wisdom to solve!

    1) in asetup: system data, pathnames (1), there's a field for "outbound mail". This is a new field, and isn't discussed in the docs as far as I can see. The help file is, um, no help!! Allfix fails to run unless there's data in that field -- so what should be there??

    2) Once I get everything configured and run allfix scan (or any other command),
    I get the bsy file written, no log entry, and it hangs until I force close the dos window.

    Can you offer me some suggestions, please? Thanks!


    Cheers... Dallas

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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Dallas Hinton on Fri May 8 14:59:22 2015
    Re: updating (at last)
    By: Dallas Hinton to all on Fri May 08 2015 11:49 am

    2) Once I get everything configured and run allfix scan (or any other command), I get the bsy file written, no log entry, and it hangs until I force close the dos window.


    I had the same issue. Emailed people here, tried some other 6.xx
    versions and couldn't find a resolution. I went back to ALLFIX 5 and all's been well since then.
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  • From Dallas Hinton@1:153/715 to Kurt Weiske on Mon May 11 19:35:15 2015
    Hi Kurt -- on May 08 2015 at 14:59, you wrote:

    I had the same issue. Emailed people here, tried some other 6.xx
    versions and couldn't find a resolution. I went back to ALLFIX 5 and
    all's been well since then.

    Damn. Well, at least I'm not completely alone!! Thanks for the answer!

    Cheers... Dallas

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