Gidday John
On 19-Sep-00, you wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Quite a long time ago I sent an email here regarding a problem I had,
> where ramlib would fail (Ramlib program failed: 8000 0004 IIRC) if I
> ran any internet program without a tcp/ip stack going. Actually it was
> any internet program and also PGP 5 and ispell from golded, so I
> suspected that ixemul had something to do with it. Some of you
> suggested various stack patches but none of these worked. Eventually I
> tracked it down to being something about bsdsocket.library. I have
> renamed this to bsdsocket.library.old and this has fixed the problem
That was the right thing to do. Loading it from file must be a
hangover from the old days. Miami and Genesis/AmiTCP create it in
memory.
> of ramlib failing, and all my internet apps seem to work fine.
> Only thing
> is, now any program that uses ixemul takes a long time to work because
> it is looking for bsdsocket.library, but after it can't find it, it
> goes anyway.
The library should only be looked for if a program has to check if a
TCP/IP stack is running.
> E.g. if I use 'ls' from the gcc package from aminet it
> takes a couple of seconds then lists the files in a directory. Anyone
> got any ideas what's going on here? I thought at first that
> bsdsocket.library was an essential part of Genesis but actually it
> doesn't seem to be a part of it at all!
Yes it is. With Genesis running and on-line, type in a shell,
version bsdsocket.library.
Regards
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