[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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