Subj : NETQ problems again
To   : Mike Luther
From : David Noon
Date : Wed Aug 07 2002 01:14 am

Hi Mike,

Replying to a message of Mike Luther to All:

[snip]
 ML> Advice?

I went through the same problems (and perhaps a few more) with the same help 
server for Visual Age C++ 4.0.

If you have access to one of the eComStation newservers (e.g. 
news.ecomstation.nl) then you will find the complete and rather sorry history 
of how to fix this sucker in messages from around early June [so they should 
still be on the server]. If you cannot find them then tell me and I will post a 

precis of them here.

Do not expect this server to work with newer kernels or TCP/IP stacks. It is a 
bucket of bolts and is being left to rust by IBM. I got it to run to a point 
where I could prove there was a bug in the code. That bug will never be fixed. 
The final result is that I must either search the HTML-esque documentation by 
hand using a Web browser or code without documentation.

<SARCASM>
From the quality of IBM's code here, I concluded that IBM's programmers chose 
the latter course of action.
</SARCASM>

Regards

Dave
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