Again, my posts appear to refuse to show up (or at least show up
intermittently) on this list, so here's another test... sorry for the
hassle, folks, but I don't know what else to do!
Steve
On 24-Jul-01, MCMANUS, Steve wrote:
> I'm not trying to lay blame or trumpet success, only trying to help Steven
> Folberg, to diagnose his problems. And if something doesn't work you
> usually assume that It was not installed properly or something else has
> disrupted that. This is not for me or anyone else to diagnose, as we
> aren't at the computer that has the problem. I just hope that whatever we
> discuss about Steve F's problem helps him find the problem. And usually in
> my experience all the little fiddling around with moving stuff, around has
> taken much longer than a clean install.
>
> BY the Way Steve F? Hows it goin? Did you solve the problem??
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Seifert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 4:04 PM
> To: MCMANUS, Steve
> Subject: [Miami] Re: Can you help me troubleshoot this?
>
>
> _Replying to a message_
>
> By: MCMANUS, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On: Saturday, July 21, 2001, 4:19:10 AM
> Re: [Miami] Re: Can you help me troubleshoot this?
>
>
> Hi Steve,
>
>>>>>> If I launch Miami after a cold boot of my Amiga (towered A1200,
>>>>>> with '060 CPU) and try to immediately go online, one of three
>>>>>> things happens:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1) Miami searches for IP addresses for several seconds, then
>>>>>> hangs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2) Miami (or Miami Downtown) gurus immediately.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 3) Miami appears to go online fine, but the next program I launch
>>>>>> (e.g., YAM or Voyager or AWeb) crashes Miami!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My workaround, after many days of hair pulling: for some bizarre
>>>>>> reason, if I launch YAM first after a cold boot, and then launch
>>>>>> Miami and go online, everything is fine. Miami is rock solid and
>>>>>> performs flawlessly. I can even repeatedly go online and offline
>>>>>> with no trouble!
>
>>>> I have a potential solution, It sounds like there is a Version
>>>> problem with the librarys, (I don't know which one). But when you
>>>> launch YAM it loads the correct library, and from then on it is
>>>> resident and everything else uses that. Otherwise Miami will load
>>>> the old one!,
>
>>> That shouldn't happen, unless someone's put MUI files in the programs
>>> directory (YAM or Miami, for example), that should have been placed
>>> in one of the MUI: directories.
>
>> You are right things like that shouldn't happen, but Programs start
>> looking for libraries in their initial location. Then they follow the
>> path laid out by the program.
>
> If programs are installed properly, then it shouldn't happen.
>
>> One thing you should do is run SNOOPDOS, and Try both scenarios (A
>> non-Yam first, and A Yam First). That should tell you the version
>> differences and locations.
>
> It's probably easiest to just look in the YAM and Miami directories for
> MUI files. Then put them where they're supposed to be: MUI:Libs/MUI
>
> YAM shouldn't have any MUI files within the YAM directories.
>
> The only MUI files within in Miami aren't MUI MCCs, but the MiamiGUIs:
>
> Miami:Libs/MUI.MiamiDxGui (for MiamiDx)
> Miami:Libs/MUI.MIamiGui (for the MUI GUI for Miami)
> Miami:Libs/MUI.MiamiToolsGui (for the MUI GUI for Miami)
> Miami:Libs/MUIMWB.MiamiGui (for the Magic Workbench looking MUI GUI for
> Miami).
>
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