| From: | Andrew Werchowiecki |
| Date: | 18 May 2001 at 15:36:29 |
| Subject: | Re: StrICQ |
Hello Matthew
On 18-May-01, you wrote:
>> I'm having some trouble with StrICQ. I haven't changed any settings, so
>> it puzzles me that it has decided to stuff up.
>>
>> Everytime I try and run it, it freezes as soon as it displays the status
>> of anyone that is online ie it goes through the login process, but then
>> it squeals and rolls over. Any other programs running at the same time
>> freeze as well. Mouse cursor still works and Workbench remains seemingly
>> functional.
> I know that one (I'm sure anyone else who uses StrICQ might know that one
> as well.... some of your mui classes/mcc files, whatever they are, are out
> of date. Unfortunately, StrICQ doesn't pop this up as an error, it just
> waits until it needs one, and promptly crashes. One of the biggest
> culprits for this sort of thing is installer scripts that don't check
> versions when installing their own versions - they have a tendancy to
> overwrite the latest version of some of your classes with older versions
> that have been included in the archive that they came in.
OK, but that's strange then because it's started working again. I'm not used
to the magical fairies in anything but my Windows machines :/
>> I have run SnoopDos and it appears to end after it fails to load
>> 'busy.mcc' after which it goes into about 50 changedirs from the StrICQ
>> directory to Ram:ENV.
>>
> That may be the one that's old. Best bet is to do an install from the AACD
> every time you get a new AACD. It may not necessarily be the only one
> that's out of date, so check the lot.
Yes... I will do that... <shifty look> with my subscription... :p Don't have
a sub, and the odd mag that reaches our shores is fairly old and out of
date removing any reason for me to have bought it in the first place.
(Sorry fellas).
And lets not get into me not having a CD-ROM on my Amiga. Bog standard Escom
A1200. Well, got a DKB 030 28mhz, but I wouldn't count that as a huge
upgrade.
Regards
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