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...) RW>> Hmmmm. RC> Yep. 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...) 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 .... Mark Owen: "Hey, did you ever hear anything about that beer? .... Fellow SEAL: "You believed that s**t, I bet you voted for change too, .... SUCKER." --- GoldED+/W32 with D'Bridge 3.82 * Origin: Texas Lone-Star - Texan, American, USAian (1:387/22) .