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 Message 995 
 Joe Delahaye to mark lewis 
 DAEMON MODE 
 23 Apr 14 13:23:03 
 
  Re: DAEMON MODE
  By: mark lewis to Joe Delahaye on Wed Apr 23 2014 11:23:58

 JD>> Why not simply put in new exe? Pretty sure you can still download
 JD>> Rex from various sources, and get an exe that is not corrupt.

 ML> or just delete the existing one and pull a new copy out of the original
 ML> archive... back in the early 90s, some of us saw problems with trying to
 ML> overwrite corrupted executables with a new copy... no clue as to why but
 ML> deleting the original and then replacing it with a new copy worked every
 ML> time...

I suggested a new archived version because his might be corrupted and could be
the cause of a corrupted exe.  Of course you would delete the corrupted exe
first 


 ML> it is also possible that the config is corrupted... IIRC, some folks
 ML> maintain a backup copy of the config so they can replace it when they have
 ML> problems from it becoming corrupted...

Yes, I have that.  Several of us have been subject to a corrupt config file

 ML> if all else fails, one might also use a binary editor on the config and
 ML> change the necessary item to the desired value... of course, this will
 ML> only work if one knows where the value is in the binary config, knows what
 ML> the desired value should be and the system doesn't calculate some sort of
 ML> checksum to ensure the config is not altered outside of the config
 ML> program...

That will likely require more knowledge then a lot are capable of, including me
now.
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