Re: VSoup problem: solved
Fred S (freds@txdirect.net)
Sun, 15 Sep 1996 10:10:00 -0500
In article <gfpOygiPApYY091yn@xs4all.nl>,
redm@xs4all.nl (Ronald Redmeijer) wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>Recently I posted a problem with VSoup, the alternative for Souper.
>Using VSoup, my script got stuck and I couldn't even abort it by
>pressing Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Break. I got some help from Phil Crown and
>Hardy Griech (the author of VSoup). At first it looked like I could
>only set up one or two connections with my news server, but verifying
>this by opening four telnet sessions connecting with the news server
>learned that this was not the problem. Hardy came up with the
>suggestion to look at my emx runtime versions. I found out that I had
>version emx09-a which were rather old. I got emx09-b from
>ftp-os2.cdrom.com: /pub/os2/emx and replaced my older version with the
>newer one. I tested it and it seems like this was the problem. VSoup
>doesn't get stuck and I can use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-Break to abort VSoup.
>Thanks for all the help.
I had the same problems. Updating to emx09-c appears to have solved
the problems. Thanks for posting the solution.