[Coco] CoCo chat

[Jim Cox]

Roger:

Just so you know, I really want to chat with other 
CoCo-nutz, but since I am on the Left-Coast on most of you 
are on the other coast, it's hard to get together.  I 
understand that you may be getting a little discouraged, 
but I encourage you to keep at it and maybe schedule a 
Chat-Fest on a weekend or something.  Please keep up the 
good work :)

Jim

On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 12:21:05 -0500
  Roger Taylor <rtaylor at bayou.com> wrote:

>At 10:58 PM 8/8/2004, you wrote:

>>I keep checking in and hardly seeing anyone in Roger's 

>>chat rooms on CoCo3.com.

>>Probably just my bad timing, but I know Roger is needing 

>>a lot of us to hit it

>>(preferably at once) and do some beta chatting and bug 

>>reporting so he can get

>>it working smoothly. Do we need to set up a schedule or 

>>something?

>>I was always an isolated CoConut until I found the online 

>>community in the late

>>90's. Now I feel like a starving man who finally arrived 

>>at a restraunt just as

>>they are closing.

>

>Consider the restaurant a Waffle House.  :)

>

>As for the chat rooms, it's becoming very hard to 

>pursuade anybody, even close friends, to waste their time 

>clicking on the link and helping test the code.  It's 

>more difficult to find two or more people to do this at 

>the same time.  So yes, it's hard to find errors that are 

>not happening when I go into the chat rooms but are 

>happening with some other users.  However, I know that 

>when it's up and running, a few people out of the 

>hundreds and hundreds of CoCo users out there will enjoy 

>chatting live with other CoCo users.

>

>Two bizarre errors are holding me up now... when I 

>attempt to read a simple cookie from the visitors web 

>browser (that he chooses to set in a previous session - 

>his nickname) the program crashes at the very instruction 

>that reads the cookie environment variable.  This only 

>happens with some visitors.  The author of HLA is swamped 

>right now and has yet to investigate the env.get 

>instruction that he just added over a month ago.  It 

>works for every other environment variable read from 

>Linux.  So I am trapping the error for now which lets the 

>program keep running but no nickname can be retrieved 

>back.  The other error is that when I attempt to open an 

>HTML file (that is not being used by anybody else, and 

>that does exist), some web browsers are causing the 

>script to generate a Linux exception $1A.  I'm working on 

>cornering this bug as well.  If it's in the fileio.open() 

>function of HLA, my only guess right now is that the web 

>server can only have so many files open at a time and 

>that I need to put in try.x.times loops when attempting 

>to open files from my script.  Still... the errors never 

>happen with me, so you can see why all of this is a 

>little baffling.

>

>Why not use Perl?  I'm a die-hard HLA user.  It's capable 

>of almost anything.  I am also the first HLA user to have 

>written a cgi-bin program.  I did this immediately after 

>Randall added the env.get instruction which reads 

>environment variables from Windows or Linux using the 

>same instruction.  A link redirector and flat-file 

>database program are being used on coco3.com now and have 

>yet to fail as far as I know.  So with the other programs 

>not failing when they open files, update them, and close 

>them, you can see why it's a mystery why this is 

>happening with the chat code.

>

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>Roger Taylor

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