Posted by Triffid on 01/19/61 11:28

Hammerer wrote:
> "Triffid" <spamme@microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:43441b1e@212.67.96.135...
>
>>Hammerer wrote:
>>
>>
>>>"Triffid" <spamme@microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>>news:4344169a@212.67.96.135...
>>>
>>>
>>>>Story so far: everyone has WinMx running from either a
>>>>HOSTS file in //windir/system32/drivers/etc/hosts or a
>>>>patched DLL (ws2_32.dll) which lives in the WinMx folder.
>>>>
>>>
>>>-- Snip --
>>>
>>>
>>>? . . . .Everything's fine here.
>>>Running the relevant Revision 2.5 entries in my Hosts file.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>OK, but the patch now crashes the program on startup for
>>some reason. Hence putting back the hosts file that I only took
>>out 2 days ago. Go on, disconnect. Are you man enough? :)
>>
>
>
> Done it 3 times over the last hour, after reading the first of the
> doom-laden posts (just to see what all the fuss was about). Tried again, 5
> minutes ago. Average 'connecting' time 3 minutes - back on no problem each
> time. WinMX version 3.53, running on my P2P box which uses Windows ME,
> heavily customized with LitePC's 98lite utility (http://www.litepc.com/).
> The XP version is great, too.
>
> Hey! I'm a man!!! Yes!
>
>

A little research shows that the DLL fix I'm using is only for XP, and
that it connects to www.winmxgroup.com, which seems to have been got at.
Presumably error handling routines were not the first thing on their
mind in the rush, so now the whole thing falls over.

http://www.vladd44.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=5955

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