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.


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