Re: [WWWOFFLE-Win32] [Newbie] Trouble getting WWWOffle 2.6a to run

[David McNab]

I agree with Andrew.
Feels like a problem with CYGWIN on Windows 95a.
Advice would be:
1) Install the Windows 95 winsock update (downloadable from Micro$oft), or
2) Upgrade to Windows 95B OSR1 or Windows 98 SE.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew M. Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 5:20 AM
Subject: Re: [WWWOFFLE-Win32] [Newbie] Trouble getting WWWOffle 2.6a to run


> Rolf Leggewie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am new to WWWOffle and I am very impressed by what the program can
> > allegedly do.  Allegedly so far, because I cannot get it to perform
> > correctly.  The version is 2.6a on a 233 Mhz Pentium II running English
> > Windows 95a.  My browsers (NS4.76 and IE5) point to the proxy
> > 127.0.0.1:8080.  
> 
> I don't think that there have been any reports of it working on
> Win95a.  It has been tested on Win98, WinME & Win2000 and is known to
> work on them.
> 
> > I have run the installer and then chose "Start WWWOffle" from the
> > program menu (no changes made to the supplied config files).  The
> > program starts without an error and displays the message
> > "wwwoffled[110865] Important: WWWOFFLE Demon Version 2.6a started.". 
> > Then I type "http://127.0.0.1:8080/" into the location bar of the
> > browser and hit return.  The hard drive makes a little noise, but then
> > stops and nothing happens.  WWWOffle displays the message
> > "wwwoffled[110865] Important: Child wwwoffles terminated by signal 11
> > (pid=1908093)."  That is all.  The program displays the same behaviour
> > for all URLs.
> 
> The "signal 11" means that the program is crashing due to a
> segmentation fault.  This is not something that WWWOFFLE should do and
> as far as I know doesn't do on any other system.
> 
> I would guess that this is a Win95 problem.  I don't think that I can
> help you any further on this.  David McNab who compiled WWWOFFLE
> version 2.6a for Win32 might have something to say, but I would expect
> that it is an operating system problem.
> 
> -- 
> Andrew.
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> Andrew M. Bishop                             [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>                                       http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/
> 
> WWWOFFLE users page:
>         http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.6/user.html
>