On Wed, 23 Apr 2014, Joe Delahaye wrote to mark lewis:

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

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

most people do not delete first... they extract over the top of... that's why
i specifically mentioned it...

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

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

 ;) (not meant in a bad way)

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

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

figuring out eh config layout isn't that hard, really... it just takes the
process of elimination but when some sort of checksum is also involved, things
are complicated, yes...

eg: i recently figured out what config files i need to copy between two
different allfix setups so they both have the same areas, links and search
settings while maintaining their different mailer related settings...
thankfully the original author saw fit to keep many option settings in
separate config files which enabled me to do this ;)

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