@samo79

A new GUI would be nice, but the current one is very old and most of the program would have to be rewritten for a new GUI. That's not my long suit.

BTW, we don't have access to the code for the 3.9 version, so we can't use that "look".

You're welcome ;)

@kas1e

I copied it directly after unpacking, so no installer was involved. However, I am no longer sure that I "just" copied everything or copied "newer" only.

When I was trying to get it all working again, I noticed that z.library was an old version (V53.1 in the archive), but replacing it didn't fix it. The current version is V53.6.

Since I need the machine for development work, I didn't really spend time trying to find out why. I reinstalled from scratch, copied over an old backup, then used AmiUpdate to get back up to date.

@kas1e

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Take care, anyone who follows that advice. I downloaded MUI-4.0-20140620r3598-os4.lha and installed it, only to render my X-1000 unbootable. I managed to prove that it was something in the Libs/ directory, but without making a backup first (silly me), it has taken me all frigging day to rebuild my system and get it back up to date.

@LyleHaze

My, my! What happened to that cynicism I saw last year?

@LyleHaze

I can't get Odyssey to save its settings without crashing. So whenever I try to use it, I have to change fonts, window size, screen, all over again.

Very boring.

I tried to log on from my X-1000 (I usually use the A1-XE). However, I could not remember the password. After stumbling around for a bit, I remembered that my current email address has changed (my ISP changed their domain name slightly some years ago).

I managed to get a link to log on and some time later another email arrived with a new password.

I tried to alter my email address, but the "email" field in the User page can not be written to.

How can I change my email address? My old domain name was "optushome", the new one is "optusnet". Could a mod change it for me? Thanks.

Sounds like a salutory lesson to all of us to enable as many warnings as possible.

Another simple thing to check is to increase the stack size by 10 or 100 and see if it makes any difference.

The printf() call will almost certainly use registers and/or stack space while making up the arguments for the call. That use of local variable space may be the real cause of the change in behaviour. That's why I suggest increasing the stack allocation, simply by using the "stack 262144" command or similar from the Shell, before running the program.

Hey, Colin,

Where are you these days?

tony

I find it very useful on the Hyperion forum. There are a couple of people that I consider idiots, but I would never think their posts are offensive - just banal. I have them in my "enemies" list and don't see them any more.

There are so many variables in the chain that it's hard to answer your question.

Many filesystems don't support files greater than 2 GB in length, so the copy could have been corrupted at any of these places:
1. Where the file was downloaded to (what file system?).
2. What it was copied to (what filesystem on the USB stick?).
3. What program did the copy (not all can read or copy files greater than 2 GB).
4. What program is reading it back to test it?
(etc)

Sorry to see you've gone over to the dark side, ace!

I think you mean "stream".

@thomas

I want to bypass the router because I'm debugging an ethernet driver at the same time. With my normal LAN connections, I get a lot of "faulty" packets (don't ask me what makes them faulty) and there is a suspicion that these faulty packets are causing problems with the device driver at one end.

I hoped that the situation might change if I could bypass the router. The router is probably ten years old now. I also want to run a backup at full speed without slowing down my wife's work on her machines.

@ami603:

Maybe I read the colours wrongly - it's hard to see inside a moulded connector, as you know. I'll check the connections properly with a meter very soon, but other problems are a little more imperative right now.

@logicalheart

You mean ping 127.0.0.1? Yes, of course. If you mean its own address, not without a loopback cable.

Each computer works fine on the LAN as well. I was merely trying to bypass the router so that I could do some backups (on the X-1000) of stuff on the A1-XE.

I want to back up all my A1-XE stuff onto an NTFS-formatted external drive, but not at USB 1.1 speeds. So I was trying to access the A1-XE through Samba from the X-1000, and to copy the stuff to the USB drive from there.

The cable is labelled:
"568A-TO-568B"
"CROSS-OVER"

When I hold the ends together (as though they were in a double-sided adaptor), I can see that the pairs line up, although each individual pair seems to be reversed.
So:
Green/white at one end connects to white/green at the other;
Orange/white to white/orange;
Blue/white to white/blue; and
Brown/white to white/brown.

I have not not yet confirmed that with a meter.

The LED on the Ethernet socket shows the loop current in the RX pair. If you connect an "ordinary" cable between two machines, you connect RX to RX and TX to TX, so neither LED lights on either machine.

When I connect this cross-over cable to my two machines, the LED lights up at each end, so I am confident that the cable is correct.

Later today I'll check it with a meter to make sure.

Thanks, that's what I'm doing.

@all

Thanks for the responses. More detail:

The cable is a commercial one, black, labelled "crossover cable". I have two of them and they behave the same way. I think they came with routers years ago. They are standard CAT5e cable.

With the cable plugged in, the LED on the Ethernet connector lights up green at each end, so I'm sure the connection is OK.

One machine is 192.168.1.20, the other is 192.168.1.30. I have tried entering no gateway address at all and entering the address of the other machine (at each end). Neither seems to work.

I always do a warm reboot after any change.

These machines normally sit on the LAN with fixed addressing, a gateway address of 192.168.1.1 and a net mask of 255.255.255.0. To get them to work as a pair, I have changed only the gateway address, rebooted, then tried to talk to the other.

Maybe I have to change something else as well?

I'm trying to connect two Amigas together without going through my router. I'm using a "crossover" cable and fixed addressing on each machine.

I set the Internet prefs in each machine to "no gateway" and connected the machines together, but I can't get them to recognise each other.

Each machine has the other's name in its "hosts" file, and when I type "ping <name>", it pings the right address but gets no response. Same thing happens when I ping the absolute address.

The LEDs on the RJ-45 connectors are lit on each machine, so the connection is good.

What am I missing?